Job 9:30
Good News Translation
No soap can wash away my sins.

New Revised Standard Version
If I wash myself with soap and cleanse my hands with lye,

Contemporary English Version
Even if I washed myself with the strongest soap,

New American Bible
If I should wash myself with soap and cleanse my hands with lye,

Douay-Rheims Bible
If I be washed, as it were, with snow waters, and my hands shall shine ever so clean:

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If I be washed, as it were, with snow waters, and my hands shall shine ever so clean:

Psalm 26:6 I will wash my hands among the innocent; and will compass thy altar, O Lord:

Proverbs 28:13 He that hideth his sins, shall not prosper: but he that shall confess, and forsake them, shall obtain mercy.

Isaiah 1:16-18 Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes, cease to do perversely, . . .

Jeremiah 2:22 Though thou wash thyself with nitre, and multiply to thyself the herb borith, thou art stained in thy iniquity before me, saith the Lord God.

Jeremiah 4:14 Wash thy heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that thou mayst be saved: how long shall hurtful thoughts abide in thee?

Romans 10:3 For they, not knowing the justice of God and seeking to establish their own, have not submitted themselves to the justice of God.

1 John 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.

Context
Job: How Can I Argue with God?
29But if so also I am wicked, why have I laboured in vain? 30If I be washed, as it were, with snow waters, and my hands shall shine ever so clean:31Yet thou shalt plunge me in filth, and my garments shall abhor me.…
Cross References
Job 9:31
Yet thou shalt plunge me in filth, and my garments shall abhor me.

Job 31:7
If my step hath turned out of the way, and if my heart hath followed my eyes, and if a spot hath cleaved to my hands:

Job 35:3
For thou saidst: That which is right doth not please thee: or what will it profit thee if I sin?

Jeremiah 2:22
Though thou wash thyself with nitre, and multiply to thyself the herb borith, thou art stained in thy iniquity before me, saith the Lord God.

Job 9:29
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