Job 9:31
“Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine owne clothes shall abhorre me.”
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Job 9:31 Context
29If I be wicked, why then labour I in vaine? 30If I wash my selfe with snow water, and make my handes neuer so cleane: 31Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine owne clothes shall abhorre me. 32For he is not a man as I am, that I should answere him, and we should come together in iudgement. 33Neither is there any dayes-man betwixt vs, that might lay his hand vpon vs both.
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Other Translations for Job 9:31
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
- King James Version
Yet You would plunge me into the pit, And my own clothes would abhor me.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.
- Basic English Bible
Then wouldest thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes would abhor me.
- Darby Bible
Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.
- Webster's Bible
yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.
- World English Bible
Then in corruption Thou dost dip me, And my garments have abominated me.
- Youngs Literal Bible
Yet wilt Thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Job 9:31
9:31 Yet - God would prove him to be a most guilty creature, notwithstanding all his purity before men. Abhor - I shall be so filthy, that my own clothes, if they had any sense in them, would abhor to touch me.