Job 9:29
I shall be found guilty; Why then should I labor in vain?
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
In Context
28Still am I in dread of the multitude of my sorrows; For I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
30If I wash myself in snow, And cleanse my hands with lye,
Cross References
Job 9:20Though I were upright, yet must my own mouth condemn me; Though I were innocent, He would prove me perverse.
Job 10:2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me! Show me wherefore thou contendest with me!
Job 10:14If I sin, then thou markest me, And wilt not acquit me of mine iniquity.
Job 21:27Behold, I know your thoughts, And the devices by which ye wrong me.
Job 33:10Behold, He seeketh causes of hostility against me; He regardeth me as his enemy.
Psalms 73:13Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain; In vain have I washed 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 →