Job 33:9
‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.
BSB
ASV
I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me:
KJV
I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.
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Job 29:14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; justice was my robe and my turban.
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I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom…
He put on righteousness like a breastplate, and the helmet of salvation on His head; He put on garments of vengeance and wrapped Himself in a cloak of zeal.
May Your priests be clothed with righteousness, and Your saints shout for joy.
Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness arrayed,
She was given clothing of fine linen, bright and pure.” For the fine linen she wears is the righteous acts of the saints.
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Job 16:17yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
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The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
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Job 10:7though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
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See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My…
I am clean - I am pure and holy. Without transgression - Job had not used these very expressions, nor had he intended to maintain that he was absolutely free from sin; see Job 9:20. He had maintained that he was not chargeable with the transgressions of which his three friends maintained that he was guilty, and in doing that he had used strong language, and language which even seemed to imply that he was without transgression; see Job 9:30; Job 10:7; Job 13:23; Job 16:
Clean - Not absolutely, for he often confesses himself to be a sinner, but no such transgression, as might give God just occasion to punish him so severely, as is implied, where he blames God for finding occasions against him, implying that he had given him none by his sins.