NET Bible
"If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands clean with lye,"
— Job 9:30, NET Bible
“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; ”
“If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands 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 change my expression and be cheerful,’
I dread all my sufferings, for I know that you do not hold me blameless.
If I am guilty, why then weary myself in vain?
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands clean with lye,
then you plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me.
For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment.
Nor is there an arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both,