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30     Though I wash my body in the pure melted snow
        and scrub my hands thoroughly with the strongest soap,
31     You would toss me into a putrid pit,
        and when I emerged, even my own clothes would hate me.
32     The Lord . . . He is no man, like me, whom I could answer,
        no human being whom I could face in court.

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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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