Job 9:29
“If I be wicked, why then labour I in vaine?”
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Job 9:29 Context
27If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leaue off my heauinesse, and comfort my selfe. 28I am afraid of all my sorrowes, I know that thou wilt not holde me innocent. 29If I be wicked, why then labour I in vaine? 30If I wash my selfe with snow water, and make my handes neuer so cleane: 31Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine owne clothes shall abhorre me.
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Other Translations for Job 9:29
[If] I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
- King James Version
"I am accounted wicked, Why then should I toil in vain?
- New American Standard Version (1995)
I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?
- American Standard Version (1901)
You will not let me be clear of sin! why then do I take trouble for nothing?
- Basic English Bible
Be it that I am wicked, why then do I labour in vain?
- Darby Bible
If I am wicked, why then do I labor in vain?
- Webster's Bible
I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?
- World English Bible
I -- I am become wicked; why [is] this? [In] vain I labour.
- Youngs Literal Bible
I shall be condemned; why then do I labour in vain?
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Job 9:29
9:29 I shall - I shall be used like a wicked man still. Why - Why then should I comfort myself with vain hopes of deliverance, as thou advisest me.