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30 “If I wash myself with water from snow,
    and cleanse my hands with lye,
31 you’ll still drop me into the Pit,[a]
    and my own clothes will despise me.
32 He’s not a man like me,
    so that I can answer him,
        or that we can enter into litigation[b] with one another.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 9:31 I.e. the place of punishment in the afterlife
  2. Job 9:32 Lit. controversy

30 Even if I washed myself with soap(A)
    and my hands(B) with cleansing powder,(C)
31 you would plunge me into a slime pit(D)
    so that even my clothes would detest me.(E)

32 “He is not a mere mortal(F) like me that I might answer him,(G)
    that we might confront each other in court.(H)

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