Parallel Verses
NET Bible
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands clean with lye,
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,
New Heart English Bible
If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
The Emphasized Bible
Though I bathe myself in snow water, and cleanse, in cleanness itself, my hands,
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
Mayim
Kaph
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 9:30
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad
29 If I am guilty, why then weary myself in vain? 30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands clean with lye, 31 then you plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 2:22
You can try to wash away your guilt with a strong detergent. You can use as much soap as you want. But the stain of your guilt is still there for me to see," says the Lord God.
Job 31:7
If my footsteps have strayed from the way, if my heart has gone after my eyes, or if anything has defiled my hands,
Psalm 26:6
I maintain a pure lifestyle, so I can appear before your altar, O Lord,
Proverbs 28:13
The one who covers his transgressions will not prosper, but whoever confesses them and forsakes them will find mercy.
Isaiah 1:16-18
Wash! Cleanse yourselves! Remove your sinful deeds from my sight. Stop sinning!
Jeremiah 4:14
"Oh people of Jerusalem, purify your hearts from evil so that you may yet be delivered. How long will you continue to harbor up wicked schemes within you?
Romans 10:3
For ignoring the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking instead to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to God's righteousness.
1 John 1:8
If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.