Job 9:29
I — I am become wicked; why [is] this? [In] vain I labour.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
In Context
28I have been afraid of all my griefs, I have known that Thou dost not acquit me.
30If I have washed myself with snow-water, And purified with soap my hands,
Cross References
Job 9:20If I be righteous, Mine mouth doth declare me wicked, Perfect I am! — it declareth me perverse.
Job 10:2I say unto God, 'Do not condemn me, Let me know why Thou dost strive [with] me.
Job 10:14If I sinned, then Thou hast observed me, And from mine iniquity dost not acquit me,
Job 21:27Lo, I have known your thoughts, And the devices against me ye do wrongfully.
Job 33:10Lo, occasions against me He doth find, He doth reckon me for an enemy to Him,
Psalms 73:13Only — a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands,
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 →