if my step has turned aside from the way, and my heart has gone after my eyes, and if any spot has cleaved to my hands;
Job 9:30 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye, Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If I wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never so clean; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If I wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye, American Standard Version (1901) If I wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never so clean; Common English Bible If I wash myself with snow, purify my hands with soap, Catholic Public Domain Version If I had been washed with snow-like waters, and my hands were shining like the cleanest thing, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If I be washed as it were with snow-waters, and my hands shall shine ever so clean: |
if my step has turned aside from the way, and my heart has gone after my eyes, and if any spot has cleaved to my hands;
that you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’
He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me, says the Lord God.
O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
For, being ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.