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Psa. 73:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Verilye I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.

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Job 9:27‑31• ²⁷If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my sad countenance, and brighten up,
²⁸I am afraid of all my sorrows; I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
²⁹Be it that I am wicked, why then do I labour in vain?
³⁰If I washed myself with snow-water, and cleansed my hands in purity,
³¹Then wouldest thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes would abhor me. (Job 9:27‑31)

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Job 9:27,31• ²⁷If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my sad countenance, and brighten up,
³¹Then wouldest thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes would abhor me. (Job 9:27,31)

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Job 21:15• ¹⁵What is the Almighty that we should serve him? and what are we profited if we pray unto him? (Job 21:15)

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Job 34:9• ⁹For he hath said, It profiteth not a man if he delight himself in God. (Job 34:9)

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Job 35:3• ³For thou hast asked of what profit it is unto thee: what do I gain more than if I had sinned? (Job 35:3)

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Mal. 3:14• ¹⁴Ye say, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we keep his charge, and that we walk mournfully before Jehovah of hosts? (Mal. 3:14)

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Psa. 24:4• ⁴He that hath blameless hands and a pure heart; who lifteth not up his soul unto vanity, nor sweareth deceitfully: (Psa. 24:4)

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Psa. 26:6• ⁶I will wash my hands in innocency, and will encompass thine altar, O Jehovah, (Psa. 26:6)

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Psa. 51:10• ¹⁰Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. (Psa. 51:10)

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Heb. 10:19‑22• ¹⁹Having therefore, brethren, boldness for entering into the holy of holies by the blood of Jesus,
²⁰the new and living way which he has dedicated for us through the veil, that is, his flesh,
²¹and having a great priest over the house of God,
²²let us approach with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, sprinkled as to our hearts from a wicked conscience, and washed as to our body with pure water. (Heb. 10:19‑22)

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James 4:8• ⁸Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double-minded. (James 4:8)

• The ungodly prosper in the world. What a riddle! Where is God's government? What is the use of good? No doubt it was more directly trying where temporal blessings had been made a sign of divine favor. But Christians are seldom separated enough from this world not to feel the success of wickedness, and a desire to take vengeance on it. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 64-77” by J.N. Darby)

• {v.13-14} The soul is tempted to think that it is useless to have cleansed his heart and washed his hands. What benefit is there in having a pure heart and clean hands, if one is plagued all the day and chastened every morning, while those who are wicked prosper? (“Psalm 73” by H. Smith)

• The remnant complain of their lot. They have sought to be upright before God but apparently it has not brought them good. They are reproached and persecuted (vs. 13-16). (“Book 3.” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Truly have I purified my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency:

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Trulya in vain I have cleansed my heart{HR}And washed my hands in innocency;

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