Job 9:30–31
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
If I wash my selfe with snow water, and make my handes neuer so cleane:
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine owne clothes shall ‖abhorre me.
Original 1611 marginTranslation notes and cross-references are kept distinct.
- ‖Alternative wordingOr, make me to be abhorred.
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From verse 30
- Jeremiah 2:22Rank 1 from verse 30
- Psalms 26:6Rank 2 from verse 30
- 1 John 1:8Rank 3 from verse 30
- Isaiah 1:16–18Rank 4 from verse 30
16¶ 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.
16¶ Wash yee, make you cleane, put away the euill of your doings from before mine eyes, *cease to doe euill,
17Learne to doe well, seeke iudgement, ‖relieue the oppressed, iudge the fatherlesse, plead for the widow.
18Come now and let vs reason together, saith the LORD: though your sinnes be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimsin, they shall be as wooll.
- Jeremiah 4:14Rank 5 from verse 30
- Proverbs 28:13Rank 7 from verse 30
- Romans 10:3Rank 8 from verse 30
3For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
3For they being ignorant of Gods righteousnesse, and going about to establish their owne righteousnesse, haue not submitted themselues vnto the righteousnesse of God.
From verse 31
- Isaiah 59:6Rank 1 from verse 31
6Their 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.
6*Their webbes shall not become garments, neither shall they couer themselues with their workes: their workes are workes of iniquitie, and the act of violence is in their hands.
- Isaiah 64:6Rank 2 from verse 31
6But 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.
6*But we are al as an vncleane thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy ragges, and we all doe fade as a leafe, and our iniquities like the wind haue taken vs away.
- Philippians 3:8–9Rank 5 from verse 31
8Yea 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:
8Yea doubtlesse, and I count all things but losse, for the excellencie of the knowledge of Christ Iesus my Lord: for whom I haue suffered the losse of all things, and doe count them but doung, that I may win Christ,
9And be found in him, not hauing mine owne righteousnesse, which is of the Law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousnesse which is of God by faith:
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Job 9:30
To cleanse with water or another liquid; to bathe or cause water to pass over.
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Frozen white precipitation falling from clouds and covering the earth.
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Sense 1: The common liquid necessary for life. Sense 2: As a verb, to supply with water, irrigate, or cause to drink.
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To form, create, produce, cause, appoint, perform, or render into a stated condition.
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Sense 1: The end parts of the arms used for holding and working. Sense 2: Figures of power, possession, agency, or aid.
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Sense 1: Not ever; at no time or in no case. Sense 2: In never so constructions, however or no matter how much.
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Sense 1: Pure or free from defilement. Sense 2: Wholly or entirely.
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Job 9:31
1. Up to or at the present or stated time; still. 2. At some future time. 3. Nevertheless; however. 4. In addition; further.
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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.
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To thrust, drive, or cast into water, mire, or another surrounding substance or condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.
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Any long, hollow receptacle of water.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
Garments, dress, or cloth coverings and wrappings worn on or around the body.
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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.
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To hate extremely, detest, reject, or regard with loathing.
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29If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vaine?
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:
Selected passage31Yet 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.
Selected passage32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
32For he is not a man as I am, that I should answere him, and we should come together in iudgement.