Job 9:29
If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
King James Version
In Context
28I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
30If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
Cross References
Job 9:20If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
Job 10:2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
Job 10:14If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
Job 21:27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
Job 33:10Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,
Psalms 73:13Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
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 →