Job 9:31
then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.
BSB
ASV
Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me.
KJV
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
If I wash myself with snow water, and if my hands shine as if never so clean; yet shalt Thou stain me with filthiness, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. For 'snow water' is the weeping of humility; which same, in that it excels all other virtues in the eyes of the strict Judge, is as it were white by the colour of preeminent merit.
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch - God would treat me as if he should throw me into the gutter, and as if I were wholly defiled and polluted. The meaning is, God would not admit the proofs which I should adduce of my innocence, but would overwhelm me with the demonstrations of my guilt. I doubt not that Job urged this with some degree of impatience, and with some improper feelings. He felt, evidently, that God was so great and powerful, that it was vain to contend with him.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
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.
leads to
I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
Now Joshua was dressed in filthy garments as he stood before the angel.
Through
Job 15:6Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.
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His master replied, ‘You wicked servant, I will judge you by your own words. So you knew that I am a harsh man, withdrawing what I did not deposit and reaping what I did…
Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.
For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”
