Job 9:30

English Standard Version 2016

If I wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,

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Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me, declares the Lord God.

I wash my hands in innocence and go around your altar, O Lord,

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

For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.

O Jerusalem, wash your heart from evil, that you may be saved. How long shall your wicked thoughts lodge within you?

Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

if my step has turned aside from the way and my heart has gone after my eyes, and if any spot has stuck to my hands,

yet you will plunge me into a pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.

that you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’

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