Job 9:29
If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
Job 9:29 in other translations
| BSB | Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain? |
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| WEB | I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain? |
| ASV | I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain? |
| YLT | I--I am become wicked; why is this? In vain I labour. |
| DARBY | Be it that I am wicked, why then do I labour in vain? |
| BBE | You will not let me be clear of sin! why then do I take trouble for nothing? |
| Webster | If I am wicked, why then do I labor in vain? |
What does Job 9:29 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 9:25-35
What little need have we of pastimes, and what great need to redeem time, when it runs on so fast towards eternity! How vain the enjoyments of time, which we may quite lose while yet time continues! The remembrance of having done our duty will be pleasing afterwards; so will not the remembrance of having got worldly wealth, when it is all lost and gone. Job's complaint of God, as one that could not be appeased and…
Job 9:29 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 9:29
- Job 10:7
Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
- Job 10:2
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
- Job 10:14-17
If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction; For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me. Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
- Job 21:16-17
Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me. How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
- Jeremiah 2:35
Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
- Job 22:5-30
Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite? For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing. Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry. But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it. …
- Job 21:27
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
- Job 9:22
This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
- Psalms 73:13
Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
- Psalms 37:33
The Lord will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
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Context
- Job 9:28
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
- Job 9:29
If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
- Job 9:30
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
Job 9:29 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Yo soy impío, ¿para qué trabajaré en vano? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Soit, je suis méchant: pourquoi me fatigué-je ainsi en vain? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Ich muß schuldig sein; wozu soll ich mich denn nutzlos abmühen? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Si autem et sic impius sum, quare frustra laboravi? |