Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Though I washed my self with snowy water, and made mine hands never so clean,
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,
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,
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
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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 If I be then a wicked doer, why have I laboured in vain? 30 Though I washed my self with snowy water, and made mine hands never so clean, 31 yet shouldest thou dip me in the mire, and mine own clothes should defile me.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 2:22
Yea, and that so sore, that though thou washest thee with Nitre and makest thyself to savour with that sweet smelling herb of Borith: yet in my sight thou art stained with thy wickedness, sayeth the LORD thy God.
Job 31:7
If so be that I have withdrawn my foot out of the right way, if my heart hath followed mine eyesight, if I have stained or defiled my hands,
Psalm 26:6
I wash my hands with innocency, O LORD, and so will I go to thine altar,
Proverbs 28:13
He that hideth his sins, shall not prosper; but who so knowledgeth them and forsaketh them, shall have mercy.
Isaiah 1:16-18
Thus saith the LORD God: Wash and be clean; put away the wickedness of your imaginations out of my sight. Cease to do evil and learn to do well.
Jeremiah 4:14
O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be helped. How long shall thy noisesome thoughts remain with thee?
Romans 10:3
For they are ignorant of the righteousness which is allowed before God, and go about to establish their own righteousness: and therefore, are not obedient unto the righteousness which is of value before God.
1 John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and truth is not in us.