Job 9:31 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

In the ditch, i.e. in miry and puddle water, whereby I shall become most filthy. But as Job's washing, so God's plunging him, &c., is not understood really, as if God would make him filthy; but only 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. Mine own clothes shall abhor me, i.e. I shall be so altogether filthy, that my own clothes, if they had any sense in them, would abhor to touch me: a figure called prosopopaeia.