King James Version
Job 9:30 in the King James Version says “If I wash myself with snow water , and make my hands never so clean;” — study this verse from Job chapter 9 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“If I wash myself with snow water , and make my hands never so clean;”
Job 9:30 · 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. 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.
KJV Study — Public Domain
used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not
vegetable lye (from its cleansing); used as a soap for washing, or a flux for metals
“and make my hands”
H3709the hollow hand or palm (so of the paw of an animal, of the sole, and even of the bowl of a dish or sling, the handle of a bolt, the leaves of a palm-
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