Job 9:29
I become wicked; why [is] this? I labor [in] vain.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
In Context
28I have been afraid of all my griefs, || I have known that You do not acquit me.
30If I have washed myself with snow-water, || And purified my hands with soap,
Cross References
Job 9:20If I am righteous, my mouth declares me wicked; [If] I am perfect, it declares me perverse.
Job 10:2I say to God, Do not condemn me, || Let me know why You strive [with] me.
Job 10:14If I sinned, then You have observed me, || And do not acquit me from my iniquity,
Job 21:27Behold, I have known your thoughts, || And the schemes against me you do wrongfully.
Job 33:10Behold, He develops hindrances against me, || He reckons me for an enemy to Him,
Psalms 73:13Only—a vain thing! I have purified my heart, || And I wash my hands in innocence,
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 →