Catholic Public Domain Version
"yet you would plunge me in filth, and my own garments would abhor me. "
— Job 9:31, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.”
“Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me. ”
“yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.”
“then you plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me.”
“Yet thou shalt plunge me in filth, and my garments shall abhor me.”
“Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.”
“Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.”
I have dreaded all my works, knowing that you did not spare the offender.
Yet, if I am also just as impious, why have I labored in vain?
If I had been washed with snow-like waters, and my hands were shining like the cleanest thing,
yet you would plunge me in filth, and my own garments would abhor me.
For even I would not answer a man who were like myself, nor one who could be heard with me equally in judgment.
There is no one who could both prevail in argument and in placing his hand between the two.
Let him take his staff away from me, and let not the fear of him terrify me.