Job 9:25-31
1599 Geneva Bible
25 My days have been more swift than a post: they have fled, and have seen no good thing.
26 They are passed as with the most swift ships, and as the Eagle that flieth to the prey.
27 If [a]I say, I will forget my complaint, I will cease from my wrath, and comfort me,
28 Then I am afraid of all my sorrows, knowing that thou wilt not judge me innocent.
29 If I be wicked, why [b]labor I thus in vain?
30 If I wash [c]myself with snow water, and purge mine hands most clean,
31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the pit, and mine own [d]clothes shall make me filthy.
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- Job 9:27 I think not to fall into these afflictions, but my sorrows bring me to these manifold infirmities, and my conscience condemneth me.
- Job 9:29 Why doth not God destroy me at once? thus he speaketh according to the infirmity of the flesh.
- Job 9:30 Though I seem never so pure in mine own eyes, yet all is but corruption before God.
- Job 9:31 Whatsoever I would use to cover my filthiness with, shall disclose me so much more.
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