Job 9:31
Good News Translation
God throws me into a pit with filth, and even my clothes are ashamed of me.

New Revised Standard Version
yet you will plunge me into filth, and my own clothes will abhor me.

Contemporary English Version
God would throw me into a pit of stinking slime, leaving me disgusting to my clothes.

New American Bible
Yet you would plunge me in the ditch, so that my garments would abhor me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Yet thou shalt plunge me in filth, and my garments shall abhor me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Yet thou shalt plunge me in filth, and my garments shall abhor me.

shalt

Job 9:20 If I would justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I would shew myself innocent, he shall prove me wicked.

Job 15:6 Thy own mouth shall condemn thee, and not I: and thy own lips shall answer thee.

mine

Isaiah 59:6 Their webs shall not be for clothing, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are unprofitable works, and the work of iniquity is in their hands.

Isaiah 64:6 And we are all become as one unclean, and all our justices as the rag of a menstruous woman: and we have all fallen as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Philippians 3:8,9 Furthermore, I count all things to be but loss for the excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ, my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them but as dung, that I may gain Christ. . . .

abhor me.

Context
Job: How Can I Argue with God?
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.32For I shall not answer a man that is like myself: nor one that may be heard with me equally in judgment.…
Cross References
Job 9:30
If I be washed, as it were, with snow waters, and my hands shall shine ever so clean:

Job 9:32
For I shall not answer a man that is like myself: nor one that may be heard with me equally in judgment.

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

Nahum 3:6
And I will cast abominations upon thee, and will disgrace thee, and will make an example of thee.

Job 9:30
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