Job 9:30

A Conservative Version

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean,

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For though thou wash thee with lye, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, says lord LORD.

I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will encompass thine altar, O LORD,

If we say that we have no sin, we lead ourselves astray, and the truth is not in us.

For not understanding the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to the righteousness of God.

O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou may be saved. How long shall thine evil thoughts lodge within thee?

He who covers his transgressions shall not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them shall obtain mercy.

if my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any spot has clung to my hands,

yet thou will plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.

That thou said, What advantage will it be to thee? [And], What profit shall I have more than if I had sinned?

Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.