Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 9:31

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

i. e. In miry and puddle water, whereby I shall become most filthy. But as Iob's washing, so God's plunging him, &c. is not understood really, as if God would make him filthy, but onely judicially, that God would prove him to be a most guilty and filthy creature notwithstanding all the professions and evidences of his purity before men.

i. e. I shall be so altogether filthy, that my own cloths, if they had any sense in them, would abhor to touch me. A figure called Prosopopoeia.

Marginal references: Or, make me to be abhorred.