Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Job 9:30
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Job9:30
30. snow water--thought to be more cleansing than common water, owing to the whiteness of snow (Psa 51:7; Is 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; Jr 2:22).
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