Job 9:29
Be it that I am wicked, why then do I labour in vain?
Darby Translation
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 wilt not hold me innocent.
30If I washed myself with snow-water, and cleansed my hands in purity,
Cross References
Job 9:20If I justified myself, mine own mouth would condemn me; were I perfect, he would prove me perverse.
Job 10:2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou strivest with me.
Job 10:14If I sinned, thou wouldest mark me, and thou wouldest not acquit me of mine iniquity.
Job 21:27Lo, I know your thoughts, and the devices ye wrongfully imagine against me.
Job 33:10Lo, he findeth occasions of hostility against me, he counteth me for his enemy;
Psalms 73:13Truly have I purified my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency:
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 →