Job 9 · Verse 31

Job 9:31

Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
Job 9:31, King James Version

Job 9:31 in other translations

BSBthen You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.
WEByet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.
ASVYet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me.
YLTThen in corruption Thou dost dip me, And my garments have abominated me.
DARBYThen wouldest thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes would abhor me.
BBEThen you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.
WebsterYet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.

What does Job 9:31 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 31 And mine own clothes shall abhor me - Such is thine infinite purity, when put in opposition to the purity of man, that it will bear no comparison. Searched and tried by the eye of God, I should be found as a leper, so that my own clothes would dread to touch me, for fear of being infected by my corruption. This is a strong and bold figure; and is derived from the corrupted state of his body, which his clothes dreaded to touch, because of the contagious nature of his disorder.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 9:25-35

What little need have we of pastimes, and what great need to redeem time, when it runs on so fast towards eternity! How vain the enjoyments of time, which we may quite lose while yet time continues! The remembrance of having done our duty will be pleasing afterwards; so will not the remembrance of having got worldly wealth, when it is all lost and gone. Job's complaint of God, as one that could not be appeased and…

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Job 9:31 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אָ֭ז'azthenH227
בַּשַּׁ֣חַתba.Sha.chatin <the> pitH7845
תִּטְבְּלֵ֑נִיtit.be.Le.niyou will dip meH2881
וְ֝תִֽעֲב֗וּנִיve.ti.'a.Vu.niand they will abhor meH8581
שַׂלְמוֹתָֽי\׃sal.mo.Taiown clothes myH8008

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 9:31

  • Job 15:6

    Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

  • Philippians 3:8-9

    Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

  • Job 9:20

    If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

  • Isaiah 59:6

    Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

  • Isaiah 64:6

    But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
shalt.
20; 15:6
mine.
Isa 59:6; 64:6; Php 3:8,9
abhor me. or, make me to be abhorred.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 9:30

    If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

  • Job 9:31

    Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

  • Job 9:32

    For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.

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Job 9:31 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Aun me hundirás en el hoyo, y mis propios vestidos me abominarán.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Alors tu me plongeras dans un fossé, et mes vêtements m’auront en horreur.
German
Elberfelder 1871
alsdann würdest du mich in die Grube tauchen, und meinen eigenen Kleidern würde vor mir ekeln.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
tamen sordibus intinges me, et abominabuntur me vestimenta mea.