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# If I washed myself with snow water
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"If I bathed my body in pure, clean water"
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# snow water
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the water that comes from melted snow
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# snow
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white flakes of frozen water that fall from clouds in places where the air temperature is cold
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# made my hands ever so clean
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"made my hands exceedingly clean." Some other versions of the Bible translate this with the meaning of "cleaned my hands with very strong soap."
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# plunge me in a ditch
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"throw me into a pit"
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# my own clothes would be disgusted with me
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Job's clothing is spoken of as if it would have a negative response to Job after God plunged him into a ditch. AT: "I would be too filthy for my own clothing" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]])
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/clean]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/god]] |