Holy Scripture
Job 9:31
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“I do not know at all, he says, God's plans. "For if I should wash myself with snow and purge myself with pure hands [that would be useless]. You have thoroughly plunged me in filth, and my garment has abhorred me." He means, before everybody's eyes I am an example of impiety. It would be necessary that the wicked disa…”
Source: Septuagint
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31Thou hadst thoroughly plunged me in filth, And my garment had abhorred me.
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29But since I am ungodly, why have I not died?
30For if I should wash myself with snow, And purge myself with pure hands,
— Job 9:31 —
32For thou art not man like me, with whom I could contend, That we might come together to judgment.
33Would that he our mediator were present, and a reprover, And one who should hear the cause between both.