Job 9:30 (BSB)
If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
Commentary on Job 9:30
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Job 9:25-35: Job here grows more and more querulous, and does not conclude this chapter with such reverent expressions of God's wisdom and justice as he began with. Those that indulge a complaining humour know not to what indecencies, nay, to what impieties, it will hurry them. The beginning of that strife with God is as the letting forth of water; therefore leave it off before it be meddled with.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Job 9:30: Yet shall thou plunge me in the ditch,.... In the filthy ditch of sin, the pit wherein is no water, the horrible pit, the mire and clay, in which all unregenerate men are, and to which hypocrites return, as the swine to its wallowing in the mire; and in which impurity self-righteous persons are, and are sooner or later made to appear, notwithstanding all their...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Job 9:30: snow water--thought to be more cleansing than common water, owing to the whiteness of snow (Psa 51:7; Isa 1:18). never so clean--Better, to answer to the parallelism of the first clause which expresses the cleansing material, "lye:" the Arabs used alkali mixed with oil, as soap (Psa 73:13; Jer 2:22).
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Job 9:30: If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; (y) Though I seem pure in my own eyes, yet all is but corruption before God.