Job 9:29
If I be wicked, why labour I thus in vaine?
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
In Context
28Then I am afrayd of all my sorowes, knowing that thou wilt not iudge me innocent.
30If I wash my selfe with snowe water, and purge mine hands most cleane,
Cross References
Job 9:20If I woulde iustifie my selfe, mine owne mouth shall condemne mee: if I would be perfite, he shall iudge me wicked.
Job 10:2I will say vnto God, Condemne mee not: shew me, wherefore thou contendest with mee.
Job 10:14If I haue sinned, then thou wilt streightly looke vnto me, and wilt not holde mee giltlesse of mine iniquitie.
Job 21:27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the enterprises, wherewith ye do me wrong.
Job 33:10Lo, he hath found occasions against me, and counted me for his enemie.
Psalms 73:13Certainely I haue clensed mine heart in vaine, and washed mine hands in innocencie.
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 →