Job 9:31 · KJV

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

King James Version

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Passage Context

²⁹If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

³⁰If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

³¹Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

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.

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Reflection Questions

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When have you felt abandoned in your struggles?

Life Application

mental health

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self-compassion

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