Job 9:29
Since I'm condemned, what's the point in arguing?
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
In Context
28I would still be terrified at all my suffering because you, God, will not say I'm innocent.
30Even if I wash myself with pure mountain water and clean my hands with soap,
Cross References
Job 9:20Even though I am right, my own mouth would condemn me; even though I am innocent, he would prove me wrong.
Job 10:2I will tell God, “Don't just condemn me—tell me what you have against me.
Job 10:14to watch me, and if I sinned, then you would not forgive my wrongs.
Job 21:27Look, I know what you're thinking, and your schemes to do me wrong.
Job 33:10See how God finds fault with me and treats me as his enemy.
Psalms 73:13It's been pointless to keep my mind pure and my hands clean.
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 →