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Job 9:30 King James If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
snow water--thought to be more cleansing than common water, owing to the whiteness of snow (Psa 51:7; Isa 1:18).

never so clean--Better, to answer to the parallelism of the first clause which expresses the cleansing material, "lye:" the Arabs used alkali mixed with oil, as soap (Psa 73:13; Jer 2:22).
 
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22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
13 Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
13 Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
6 I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:
24 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
24 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
13 Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
6 I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD: