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Job 9:31
Job 9:31 is verse 31 of Job chapter 9, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.
King James Version
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
World English Bible
yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.
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Job 9:29–33 · Berean Standard Bible
29 Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?
30 If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
31 then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.
32 For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.
33 Nor is there a mediator between us, to lay his hand upon us both.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 9:20Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.
Job 15:6Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.
Isaiah 59:6Their cobwebs cannot be made into clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their deeds are sinful deeds, and acts of violence are in their hands.
Isaiah 64:6Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
Philippians 3:8More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ
Philippians 3:9and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.