Job 9:30

“If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;”

"If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;" - Job 9:30
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What does Job 9:30 mean?

Job 9:30 (KJV) states, "If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean," This verse is part of a larger passage in the Book of Job, where the protagonist, Job, is lamenting the unfairness of the suffering he is enduring and the inability of humans to stand…

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Purity in a Broken World: A Reflection on Job 9:30

The book of Job stands as a profound piece of literature in the Holy Scriptures, deeply exploring themes of suffering, justice, and divine sovereignty. Among the verses that encapsulate Job’s struggle and acknowledgment of human limitation is Job 9:30, which states, "If I wash…

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A Prayer for Divine Cleansing and Inner Purity

O Gracious and Merciful Father, I come before Your presence this day, humbled and awed by Your greatness. I am reminded of the words spoken in the book of Job, where he laments, "If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;" (Job 9:30 KJV). These words…

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Job 9:30 - "If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;"
Job 30:9 - "And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword."
"And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword." - Job 30:9
Job 30:9-10 - "And now I have become their song; I am a byword to them. They abhor me, they keep aloof from me; they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me."
Job 30:30 - "My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat."
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Job 34:30 - "That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared."
Job 30:6 - "To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks."
Job 9:1 - "Then Job answered and said,"
Job 30:29 - "I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls."
Job 38:30 - "The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen."
Job 30:27 - "My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me."
Job 30:4 - "Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat."
Job 30:7 - "Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together."
"My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat." - Job 30:30
Job 22:30 - "He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands."
Job 30:25 - "Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?"
Job 6:30 - "Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?"
Job 33:30 - "To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living."
Job 30:13 - "They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper."
Job 36:30 - "Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea."
Job 21:30 - "That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath."
"Then Job answered and said," - Job 9:1
Job 30:3 - "For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste."
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