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29 I will be condemned,
    so why should I wear myself out with this futility?

30 “If I wash myself with water from snow,
    and cleanse my hands with lye,
31 you’ll still drop me into the Pit,[a]
    and my own clothes will despise me.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 9:31 I.e. the place of punishment in the afterlife

29 Since I am already found guilty,
    why should I struggle in vain?(A)
30 Even if I washed myself with soap(B)
    and my hands(C) with cleansing powder,(D)
31 you would plunge me into a slime pit(E)
    so that even my clothes would detest me.(F)

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