Job 9:29
But since I am ungodly, why have I not died?
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
In Context
28I quake in all my limbs, for I know that thou wilt not leave me alone as innocent.
30For if I should wash myself with snow, and purge myself with pure hands,
Cross References
Job 9:20For though I should seem righteous, my mouth will be profane: and though I should seem blameless, I shall be proved perverse.
Job 10:2And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and wherefore hast thou thus judged me?
Job 10:14And if I should sin, thou watchest me; and thou hast not cleared me from iniquity.
Job 21:27So I know you, that ye presumptuously attack me:
Job 33:10Yet he has discovered a charge against me, and he has reckoned me as an adversary.
Psalms 73:13Thou didst establish the sea, in thy might, thou didst break to pieces the heads of the + 73:13 Or, serpents.dragons in the water.
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 →