Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Though I bathe myself in snow water, and cleanse, in cleanness itself, my hands,
New American Standard Bible
And cleanse
King James Version
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
Holman Bible
and cleanse my hands with lye,
International Standard Version
"If I wash myself with water from snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
A Conservative Version
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean,
American Standard Version
If I wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never so clean;
Amplified
“If I were to wash myself with snow
And cleanse my hands with lye,
Bible in Basic English
If I am washed with snow water, and make my hands clean with soap;
Darby Translation
If I washed myself with snow-water, and cleansed my hands in purity,
Julia Smith Translation
If I washed myself in snow-water, and cleansed my hands clean;
King James 2000
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean;
Lexham Expanded Bible
If I wash myself with soap, and I cleanse my hands with lye,
Modern King James verseion
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Though I washed my self with snowy water, and made mine hands never so clean,
NET Bible
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands clean with lye,
New Heart English Bible
If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
Webster
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
World English Bible
If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
Youngs Literal Translation
If I have washed myself with snow-water, And purified with soap my hands,
Themes
Pardon » Outward purifications, ineffectual for
Purifications or baptisms » Insufficient for spiritual purification
Self-righteousness » Is vain because our righteousness is » Ineffectual for salvation
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 9:30
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad
29 I, shall be held guilty, - Wherefore then, in vain, should I toil? 30 Though I bathe myself in snow water, and cleanse, in cleanness itself, my hands, 31 Then, in a ditch, wouldst thou plunge me, and mine own clothes should abhor me:
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 2:22
For though thou wash thee with nitre, And take thee much soap, Yet is thine iniquity inscribed before me Declareth My Lord Yahweh.
Job 31:7
If my goings have swerved from the way, - and, after mine eyes, hath gone my heart, and, to my hands, hath adhered any stain,
Psalm 26:6
I will bathe, in pureness, my hands, - so will I go in procession around thine altar, O Yahweh;
Proverbs 28:13
He that covereth his transgressions, shall not prosper, but, he that confesseth and forsaketh, shall find compassion.
Isaiah 1:16-18
Wash you make you clean, Put away the wickedness of your doings from before mine eyes, - Cease to do evil.
Jeremiah 4:14
Wash from wickedness thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved, - How long, shall lodge within thee thy wicked devices?
Romans 10:3
For, not knowing God's righteousness and, their own, seeking to establish, unto the righteousness of God, have they not submitted;
1 John 1:8
If we say - Sin, have we none! we are deceiving, ourselves, and, the truth, is not in us.