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

job 9:30 "If I should wash myself with snow And cleanse my hands with lye,

30. snow water--thought to be more cleansing than common water, owing to the whiteness of snow (Ps 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 (Ps 73:13; Jer 2:22).

job 9:30 "If I should wash myself with snow And cleanse my hands with lye,

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