Job 9:29
I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
In Context
28I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that thou will not hold me innocent.
30If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean,
Cross References
Job 9:20Though I be righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.
Job 10:2I will say to God, Do not condemn me. Show me why thou contend with me.
Job 10:14If I sin, then thou mark me. And thou will not acquit me from my iniquity.
Job 21:27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices with which ye would wrong me.
Job 33:10[Thou say,] Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.
Psalms 73:13Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocence,
Matthew Henry on Job 9:26-35
25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. 26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey. 27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself: 28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. 29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? 30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; 31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor… Read the whole commentary →