Job 9:29
If I be wicked, 1 why then labor I in hevel (vain)? 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
In Context
28I am afraid of all my sorrows; 1 I have da'as that Thou wilt not hold me innocent. 1
30If I wash myself with sheleg (snow), 1 and make my hands clean with lye, 1
Cross References
Job 9:20If etzdak (I am justified, in the right), mine own mouth would condemn me; 1 if I say, I am blameless, He would prove me perverse. 1
Job 10:2I will say unto Eloah, Do not condemn me; 1 show me what charge Thou dost contend with me. 1
Job 10:14If I sin, then Thou art shomer over me, 1 and Thou wilt not let my avon go unpunished. 1
Job 21:27Behold, I know your machshevot, 1 and the stratagems which ye wrongfully imagine against me. 1
Job 33:10Yet He findeth tenuot (occasions) against me, 1 He counteth me for his oyev, 1
Psalms 73:13Surely in vain have I cleansed my lev, 1 and washed my hands in innocency. 1
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 →