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The Book of Job, Chapter 9, Verse 31

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If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
King James Version
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
American Standard Version
Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me.
New English Translation
then you plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me.
World English Bible
yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.
32
For [he is] not a man, as I [am, that] I should answer him, [and] we should come together in judgment.
33
Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, [that] might lay his hand upon us both.
34
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
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[Then] would I speak, and not fear him; but [it is] not so with me.
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My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
3
[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?
4
Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
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[Are] thy days as the days of man? [are] thy years as man's days,
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That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?