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If I wash myself with snow, And cleanse my hands with lye,
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The Futility of Self-Cleansing
Job uses the strongest cleaning agents known in his time—pure snow water and alkali soap (lye)—to make a powerful point. Commentators explain that he is expressing the utter futility of trying to make himself morally pure enough for God through his own efforts. Even with the most extreme measures of self-purification, he feels he cannot escape being seen as guilty in God's eyes.
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18th Century
Theologian
If I wash myself with snow water – If I should make myself as pure as possible, and should become, in my view, perfectly holy. Snow water, i…
17th Century
Pastor
If I wash myself with snow water As it came from heaven, or flowed from the mountains covered with snow, as Lebanon,…
Minister
How little need we have of pastimes, and how great our need is to redeem time, when it runs so quickly toward eternity! How vain are the enjoyments…