“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…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — COMMENTARY ON JOB 9:29-31
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31Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
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29If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
30If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
— Job 9:31 —
32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
33Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.