Job 9:29
You will not let me be clear of sin! why then do I take trouble for nothing?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
In Context
28I go in fear of all my pains; I am certain that I will not be free from sin in your eyes.
30If I am washed with snow water, and make my hands clean with soap;
Cross References
Job 9:20Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner.
Job 10:2I will say to God, Do not put me down as a sinner; make clear to me what you have against me.
Job 10:14That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin:
Job 21:27See, I am conscious of your thoughts, and of your violent purposes against me;
Job 33:10See, he is looking for something against me; in his eyes I am as one of his haters;
Psalms 73:13As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness;
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 →