Job 22:30

he will deliver even someone who is not innocent, ¹  who will escape ²  through the cleanness of your hands.”

Ge 18:26-32; Job 42:8; Isa 1:15; Isa 58:12; Jer 5:1; Mal 1:9; Mt 17:19,20; Ac 19:15,16; Ac 27:24; 1Ti 2:8; Jas 5:15,16

¹ tc The Hebrew has אִי־נָקִי (’i naqi), which could be taken as “island of the innocent” (so Ibn-Ezra), or “him that is not innocent” (so Rashi). But some have changed אִי (’i) to אִישׁ (’ish, “the innocent man”). Others differ: A. Guillaume links אִי (’i) to Arabic ‘ayya “whosoever,” and so leaves the text alone. M. Dahood secures the same idea from Ugaritic, but reads it אֵי (’e).

² tc The MT has “he will escape [or be delivered].” Theodotion has the second person, “you will be delivered.”