If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
Ver. 30. If I wash myself with snow water] Some take the former words, I am wicked, to be Job's confession of his own sinfulness in comparison of God's surpassing holiness. And then this followeth very fitly, Though I wash myself with snow water, i.e. with water as clear as snow is white. Some read it aquis vivis for aquis nivis, spring water for snow water.
And make my hands never so clean] Though I wash my hands with soap (so some read it), as Jer 2:22 Malachi 3:2; or, though I wash mine hands in a well (where there is no want of water), both inside and outside, as James 4:8 .