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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 heaviness, and comfort myself:
²⁸I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
²⁹If I be wicked, why then labor I in vain?
³⁰If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
³¹Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall 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 heaviness, and comfort myself:
³¹Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. (Job 9:27,31)

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

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Job 34:9• ⁹For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God. (Job 34:9)

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Job 35:3• ³For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin? (Job 35:3)

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Mal. 3:14• ¹⁴Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts? (Mal. 3:14)

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

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Psa. 26:6• ⁶I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O Lord: (Psa. 26:6)

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

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Heb. 10:19‑22• ¹⁹Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
²⁰By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
²¹And having an high priest over the house of God;
²²Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. (Heb. 10:19‑22)

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James 4:8• ⁸Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye 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? (“Psalms 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: