American Standard Version
"If I wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never so clean; "
— Job 9:30, American Standard Version
“If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;”
“If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,”
“If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands clean with lye,”
“If I be washed, as it were, with snow waters, and my hands shall shine ever so clean:”
“If I am washed with snow water, and make my hands clean with soap;”
“If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;”
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer;
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?
If I wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never so clean;
Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me.
For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, That we should come together in judgment.
There is no umpire betwixt us, That might lay his hand upon us both.