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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30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.

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30 (A)If I wash myself with snow water,
And cleanse my hands with [a]soap,
31 Yet You will plunge me into the pit,
And my own clothes will [b]abhor me.

32 “For (B)He is not a man, as I am,
That I may answer Him,
And that we should go to court together.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 9:30 lye
  2. Job 9:31 loathe