Job 9:29
Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
In Context
28I would still dread all my sufferings; I know that You will not acquit me.
30If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
Cross References
Job 9:20Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.
Job 10:2I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.
Job 10:14If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.
Job 21:27Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
Job 33:10Yet God finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy.
Psalms 73:13Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.
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 →