KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 9:30–31
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Job 9:30
30If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
30If I wash my selfe with snow water, and make my handes neuer so cleane:
Job 9:31
31Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
31Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine owne clothes shall ‖abhorre me.
- Or, make me to be abhorred.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 9:30
To cleanse with water or another liquid; to bathe or cause water to pass over.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A compound of my and self, used after I, to express emphasis, marking emphatically the distinction between the speaker and unother person.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Water produced from melting snow.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The common liquid necessary for life; as a verb, to supply with water, irrigate, or cause to drink.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To cause to become the stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The end parts of the arms used for holding and working; also figures of power, possession, agency, or aid.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Not ever; not at any time; in no case or degree.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Pure or free from defilement; also wholly or entirely.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Job 9:31
To thrust, drive, or cast into water, mire, or another surrounding substance or condition.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Any long, hollow receptacle of water.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Belonging to oneself; peculiar or proper to the person or thing named.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Garments, dress, or cloth coverings and wrappings worn on or around the body.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 (facsimile-linked witness) · Strong's Exhaustive Concordance 1890 (occurrence-specific) · KJV usage (PCE)
To hate extremely, detest, reject, or regard with loathing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 30
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Open the full verse study22For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God.
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Open the full verse study6I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O Lord:
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Open the full verse study8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
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Open the full verse study16¶ Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
17Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
18Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
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Open the full verse study14O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
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Open the full verse study7If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
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Open the full verse study13He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
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Open the full verse study3For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
From verse 31
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Open the full verse study6Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
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Open the full verse study6But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
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Open the full verse study6Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
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Open the full verse study20If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
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Open the full verse study8Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
9And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
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