Job 9:29
Good News Translation
Since I am held guilty, why should I bother?

New Revised Standard Version
I shall be condemned; why then do I labor in vain?

Contemporary English Version
So what's the use of trying to prove my innocence?

New American Bible
It is I who will be accounted guilty; why then should I strive in vain?

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if so also I am wicked, why have I laboured in vain?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But if so also I am wicked, why have I laboured in vain?

Job 9:22 One thing there is that I have spoken, both the innocent and the wicked he consumeth.

Job 10:7,14-17 And shouldst know that I have done no wicked thing, whereas there is no man that can deliver out of thy hand? . . .

Job 21:16,17,27 Yet because their good things are not in their hand, may the counsel of the wicked be far from me. . . .

Job 22:5 And not for thy manifold wickedness and thy infinite iniquities?

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Psalm 73:13 And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent.

Jeremiah 2:35 And thou hast said: I am without sin and am innocent: and therefore let thy anger be turned away from me. Behold, I will contend with thee in judgment, because thou hast said: I have not sinned.

Context
Job: How Can I Argue with God?
28I feared all my works, knowing that thou didst not spare the offender. 29But if so also I am wicked, why have I laboured in vain?30If I be washed, as it were, with snow waters, and my hands shall shine ever so clean:…
Cross References
Job 9:20
If I would justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I would shew myself innocent, he shall prove me wicked.

Job 10:2
I will say to God: Do not condemn me: tell me why thou judgest me so?

Psalm 37:33
But the Lord will not leave him in his hands; nor condemn him when he shall be judged.

Job 9:28
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