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Job 9:30

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

KJV

Si lotus fuero quasi aquis nivis, et fulserint velut mundissimæ manus meæ,

Vulgate

ἐὰν γὰρ ἀπολούσωμαι χιόνι, καὶ ἀποκαθάρωμαι χερσὶν καθαραῖς,

LXX

If I wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never so clean;

ASV

אִם הִתְרָחַ֥צְתִּי במו בְ/מֵי שָׁ֑לֶג וַ֝/הֲזִכּ֗וֹתִי בְּ/בֹ֣ר כַּפָּֽ/י

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אִם
'm
conjunction · 1065×
בְּמוֹ
bmv
noun · 11×
בֹּ֖ר
br
noun · 2×
זַכּ֥וּ
zkv
verb · 4×
כַּ֥ף
kp
noun · 191×
מַ֖יִם
mym
noun · 580×
רָחַ֥ץ
rchts
verb · 72×
שָּֽׁלֶג
shlg
noun · 20×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Jas 4:8 — Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
  • Jer 2:22 — For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
  • Jer 2:22 — For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
  • Job 34:9 — For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
  • Mark 7:4 — And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.
  • Matt 27:24 — When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see
  • Ps 26:6 — I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:
  • Zech 13:1 — In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.