Job 9:31
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
Cross-references
Job 15:6 has Eliphaz say Job's own mouth condemns him, mirroring Job's claim that his own clothes abhor him—both testify against him.
In Job 7:5, Job describes his flesh as loathsome with worms — a physical parallel to the metaphorical filth of his clothes abhorring him.
In Job 30:19, Job says God cast him into mire like dust and ashes — almost identical imagery to being plunged into a ditch.
In Job 40:4, Job humbly says 'I am vile' — acknowledging the very vileness he earlier complained God forced on him.
In Job 42:6, Job abhors himself and repents — the abhorrence his clothes felt now becomes his own, completing the theme.
Isaiah 64:6 declares all righteous acts are filthy rags, directly paralleling Job's feeling that even his clean clothes are abhorrent to God.
In Psalm 73:13, the psalmist says he cleansed his heart in vain — mirroring Job's sense that innocence yields no benefit before God.
Jeremiah 2:22 echoes the futility of washing: no amount of soap can remove iniquity, just as Job's clothes abhor him despite cleansing.
Zechariah 13:1 promises a fountain for cleansing from sin, contrasting Job's hopelessness that even washing leaves him filthy.