Job 9:29
I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
In Context
28I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that you will not hold me innocent.
30If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
Cross References
Job 9:20Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.
Job 10:2I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.
Job 10:14if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.
Job 21:27“Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.
Job 33:10Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.
Psalms 73:13Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and 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 →