Job 9:29 “Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?”

Job 9:29

Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

World English Bible

I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

American Standard Version

I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?

Geneva Bible 1599

If I be wicked, why labour I thus in vaine?

Darby Translation

Be it that I am wicked, why then do I labour in vain?

Young's Literal Translation

I — I am become wicked; why [is] this? [In] vain I labour.

Bible in Basic English

You will not let me be clear of sin! why then do I take trouble for nothing?

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Cross references

“If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?”

Job 10:7 Job 9:22 Job 10:14–17 Job 21:27 Job 22:5–30 Psalm 73:13

Job 10:7 · BSB

though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?

Job 9:22 · BSB

It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’

Job 10:14–17 · BSB

If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.

Job 21:27 · BSB

Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

Job 22:5–30 · BSB

Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?

Psalm 73:13 · BSB

Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.

Also

Psalm 37:33 Job 10:2

Psalm 37:33 · BSB

the LORD will not leave them in their power or let them be condemned under judgment.

Job 10:2 · BSB

I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

28I would still dread all my sufferings; I know that You will not acquit me.

30If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,

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