Job 9:29
But if so also I am wicked, why have I laboured in vain?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
In Context
28I feared all my works, knowing that thou didst not spare the offender.
30If I be washed as it were with snow waters, and my hands shall shine ever so clean :
Cross References
Job 9:20If I would justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I would shew myself innocent, he shall prove me wicked.
Job 10:2I will say to God: Do not condemn me: tell me why thou judgest me so.
Job 10:14If I have sinned and thou hast spared me for an hour: why dost thou not suffer me to be clean from my iniquity?
Job 21:27Surely I know your thoughts, and your unjust judgments against me.
Job 33:10Because he hath found complaints against me, therefore he hath counted me for his enemy.
Psalms 73:13And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent.
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 →