Job 9:29
Yet, if I am also just as impious, why have I labored in vain?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
In Context
28I have dreaded all my works, knowing that you did not spare the offender.
30If I had been washed with snow-like waters, and my hands were shining like the cleanest thing,
Cross References
Job 9:20If I wanted to justify myself, my own mouth will condemn me; if I would reveal my innocence, he would prove me depraved.
Job 10:2I will say to God: Do not be willing to condemn me. Reveal to me why you judge me this way.
Job 10:14If I have sinned, and you have spared me for an hour, why do you not endure me to be clean from my iniquity?
Job 21:27Surely, I know your thoughts and your sinful judgments against me.
Job 33:10Yet he has discovered blame in me, and so he has treated me like his enemy.
Psalms 73:13In your virtue, you confirmed the sea. You crushed the heads of the serpents in the waters.
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 →