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Job 9:30

New King James Version

If I wash myself with snow water, And cleanse my hands with soap,

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If my step has turned from the way, Or my heart walked after my eyes, Or if any spot adheres to my hands,

For you say, ‘What advantage will it be to You? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?’

Yet You will plunge me into the pit, And my own clothes will abhor me.

I will wash my hands in innocence; So I will go about Your altar, O Lord,

Hide Your face from my sins, And blot out all my iniquities.

He who covers his sins will not prosper, But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.

For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, Yet your iniquity is marked 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 they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

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