Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Then thou wilt immerse me in the ditch, and my garments abhorred me.
New American Standard Bible
And my own clothes would abhor me.
King James Version
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
Holman Bible
and my own clothes despise me!
International Standard Version
you'll still drop me into the Pit, and my own clothes will despise me.
A Conservative Version
yet thou will plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.
American Standard Version
Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me.
Amplified
You would still plunge me into the pit,
And my own clothes would hate me [and refuse to cover my foul body].
Bible in Basic English
Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.
Darby Translation
Then wouldest thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes would abhor me.
King James 2000
Yet shall you plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.
Lexham Expanded Bible
then you plunge me into the [slime] pit, and my clothes abhor me.
Modern King James verseion
yet You will plunge me into the ditch and my own clothes shall despise me.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
yet shouldest thou dip me in the mire, and mine own clothes should defile me.
NET Bible
then you plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me.
New Heart English Bible
yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.
The Emphasized Bible
Then, in a ditch, wouldst thou plunge me, and mine own clothes should abhor me:
Webster
Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.
World English Bible
yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.
Youngs Literal Translation
Then in corruption Thou dost dip me, And my garments have abominated me.
Themes
Pardon » Outward purifications, ineffectual for
Purifications or baptisms » Insufficient for spiritual purification
Self-righteousness » Is vain because our righteousness is » Ineffectual for salvation
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 9:31
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad
30 If I washed myself in snow-water, and cleansed my hands clean; 31 Then thou wilt immerse me in the ditch, and my garments abhorred me. 32 For not a man as I; I shall answer him, we shall come together in judgment
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Cross References
Job 9:20
If I shall be just, my mouth shall condemn me: I am blameless, and he will declare me perverse.
Job 15:6
Thy mouth will condemn thee, and not I: and thy lips will testify against thee.
Isaiah 59:6
Their webs shall not be for a garment, and they shall not be covered with their works: their works the works of vanity, and the work of violence in their hands.
Isaiah 64:6
And we were all as the unclean, and all our justice as the garment of monthly courses; and we shall all fail away as the leaf; and our iniquities as the wind will take us away.
Philippians 3:8-9
But surely, I also think all things to be loss for the superiority of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have been made to lose all things, and I think to be offscourings, that I shall gain Christ,