30If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
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For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; …
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 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 . When we are…
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