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30 If I wash myself with lye soap[a]
    and cleanse my hands with bleach,
31 then you would plunge me into a muddy pit,
    and my own clothes would find me disgusting.
32 A human like me cannot answer Eloah,
    ‘Let’s take our case to court.’

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  1. Job 9:30 Or “with water made from snow.”

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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