Job: How Can I Contend with God?
Job 9:31
In 11 translations
- BSB
- then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.
- KJV
- Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.abhor…: or, make me to be abhorred
- WEB
- yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.
- ASV
- Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me.
- LSV
- Then You dip me in corruption, || And my garments have detested me.
- YLT
- Then in corruption Thou dost dip me, And my garments have abominated me.
- DBY
- Then wouldest thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes would abhor me.
- DRC
- Yet thou shalt plunge me in filth, and my garments shall abhor me,
- GNV
- Yet shalt thou plunge mee in the pit, and mine owne clothes shall make me filthie.
- JPS
- Yet wilt Thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
- LXXE
- thou hadst thoroughly plunged me in filth, and my garment had abhorred me.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- אָ֭ז בַּשַּׁ֣חַת תִּטְבְּלֵ֑נִי וְ֝תִֽעֲב֗וּנִי שַׂלְמוֹתָֽי׃
- LXX-Br
- ἱκανῶς ἐν ῥύπῳ με ἔβαψας, ἐβδελύξατο δέ με ἡ στολή.
Who and where
◆ Job's Trial
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
DitchPhilosophySelf-RighteousnessPurifications or BaptismsMurmuringPardonSinJob, Book ofAfflictions and AdversitiesGod
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Cross-references most cited first
- Isaiah 59:6Their cobwebs cannot be made into clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their deeds are sinful deeds, and acts of violence are in their hands.
- Job 9:20Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.
- Isaiah 64:6Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
- Job 15:6Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.
- Philippians 3:8–9More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him,…
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