29 If I be wicked, why [a]labor I thus in vain?

30 If I wash [b]myself with snow water, and purge mine hands most clean,

31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the pit, and mine own [c]clothes shall make me filthy.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 9:29 Why doth not God destroy me at once? thus he speaketh according to the infirmity of the flesh.
  2. Job 9:30 Though I seem never so pure in mine own eyes, yet all is but corruption before God.
  3. Job 9:31 Whatsoever I would use to cover my filthiness with, shall disclose me so much more.

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