The Book of Job, Chapter 9, Verse 30

[If] I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

King James Version

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

American Standard Version

If I wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never so clean;

New English Translation

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands clean with lye,

World English Bible

If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

For [he is] not a man, as I [am, that] I should answer him, [and] we should come together in judgment.

Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, [that] might lay his hand upon us both.

Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

[Then] would I speak, and not fear him; but [it is] not so with me.

My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.

[Is it] good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?

[Are] thy days as the days of man? [are] thy years as man's days,