Verse 30
Job 9:30
World English Bible, British Edition
30
If I wash myself with snow,
and cleanse my hands with lye,
Original Language Text
hebrew
אִם הִתְרָחַ֥צְתִּי במו בְ/מֵי שָׁ֑לֶג וַ֝/הֲזִכּ֗וֹתִי בְּ/בֹ֣ר כַּפָּֽ/י
English Translation
If I have washed in snow water and made my hands clean in the cleanness of the bowl.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 9 Context
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Then Job answered,
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“Truly I know that it is so,
but how can man be just with God (Elohim)?
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If he is pleased to contend with him,
he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.
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God (Elohim) is wise in heart, and mighty in strength.
Who has hardened himself against him and pros...
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He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it,
when he overturns them in his anger.
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He shakes the earth out of its place.
Its pillars tremble.
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He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise,
and seals up the stars.
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He alone stretches out the heavens,
and treads on the waves of the sea.
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He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades,
and the rooms of the south.
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He does great things past finding out;
yes, marvellous things without number.
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Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him.
He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.
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Behold, he snatches away.
Who can hinder him?
Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’
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“God (Elohim) will not withdraw his anger.
The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
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How much less will I answer him,
and choose my words to argue with him?
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Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him.
I would make supplication to my judge.
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If I had called, and he had answered me,
yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.
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For he breaks me with a storm,
and multiplies my wounds without cause.
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He will not allow me to catch my breath,
but fills me with bitterness.
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If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty!
If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?...
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Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me.
Though I am blameless, it will prove me pervers...
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I am blameless.
I don’t respect myself.
I despise my life.
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“It is all the same.
Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
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If the scourge kills suddenly,
he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
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The earth is given into the hand of the wicked.
He covers the faces of its judges.
If not he, then w...
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“Now my days are swifter than a runner.
They flee away. They see no good.
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They have passed away as the swift ships,
as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
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If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint,
I will put off my sad face, and cheer up,’
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I am afraid of all my sorrows.
I know that you will not hold me innocent.
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I will be condemned.
Why then do I labour in vain?
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If I wash myself with snow,
and cleanse my hands with lye,
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yet you will plunge me in the ditch.
My own clothes will abhor me.
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For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him,
that we should come together in judgement.
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There is no umpire between us,
that might lay his hand on us both.
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Let him take his rod away from me.
Let his terror not make me afraid;
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then I would speak, and not fear him,
for I am not so in myself.
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