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30 If I wash myself with soap,[a]
and I cleanse my hands with lye,
31 then you plunge me into the slime pit,
and my clothes abhor me.
32 “For[b] he is not a mortal like me that I can answer him,
that we can come to trial together.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 9:30 Or “with snow,” or “in snow”
  2. Job 9:32 Or the emphatic “Indeed”
  3. Job 9:32 Literally “we come together in the justice,” or “we come together in the judgment”

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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