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Read Full Chapter (Job 9) Job 9:28-31 KJV
"I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me."
Job Chapter 9, Verse 28-31
Job 9:28-31 in Context (Verses 25–34 KJV)
25
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
26
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.*
27
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
28
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
29
If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
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.
33
Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.**
34
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me: