Job 9:31 — Meaning and Application

King James Version

“Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. {abhor...: or, make me to be abhorred}”

Job 9:31

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{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. {abhor...: or, make me to be abhorred}

For {he is} not a man, as I {am, that} I should answer him, {and} we should come together in judgment.

Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, {that} might lay his hand upon us both. {any...: Heb. one that should argue} {daysman: or, umpire}

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Job 9:1

"Then Job answered and said,"

Job 9:2

"I know {it is} so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? {with God: or, before God?}"

Job 9:3

"If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand."

Job 9:4

"{He is} wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened {himself} against him, and hath prospered?"

Job 9:5

"Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger."

Job 9:6

"Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble."

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