Job 9:29
27 If I were to say, ‘I will forget my complaint and change my expression and smile,’
28 I would still dread all my sufferings; I know that You will not acquit me.
Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?
30 If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
31 then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?
- KJV
- If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
- WEB
- I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?
- ASV
- I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?
- DARBY
- Be it that I am wicked, why then do I labour in vain?
- BLB
- I am wicked; why then should I labor in vain?
- ÅB
- Jeg skal jo være ugudelig - hvorfor gjør jeg meg da forgjeves strev?
- OTB
- Siden jeg allerede er skyldig,
hvorfor skulle jeg arbeide forgjeves? - B1930
- Jeg skal jo være ugudelig - hvorfor gjør jeg mig da forgjeves møie?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 10:7
though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
Read in contextJob 10:2
I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.
Read in contextJob 10:14–17
If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.
Read in contextJob 21:16–17
Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
Read in contextJeremiah 2:35
you say, ‘I am innocent. Surely His anger will turn from me.’ Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
Read in contextJob 22:5–30
Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?
Read in contextJob 21:27
Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
Read in contextJob 9:22
It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
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