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Job 9:29 KJV (With Strong’s)

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If I be wicked, why then labor I in vain?

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Job 9:22• ²²It is all one; therefore I said, he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. (Job 9:22)

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Job 10:7,14‑17• ⁷Since thou knowest that I am not wicked, and that there is none that delivereth out of thy hand?
¹⁴If I sinned, thou wouldest mark me, and thou wouldest not acquit me of mine iniquity.
¹⁵If I were wicked, woe unto me! and righteous, I will not lift up my head, being so full of shame, and beholding mine affliction;--
¹⁶And it increaseth: thou huntest me as a fierce lion; and ever again thou shewest thy marvellous power upon me.
¹⁷Thou renewest thy witnesses before me and increasest thy displeasure against me; successions of evil and a time of toil are with me. (Job 10:7,14‑17)

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Job 21:16‑17,27• ¹⁶Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked be far from me!
¹⁷How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and cometh their calamity upon them? Doth he distribute sorrows to them in his anger?
²⁷Lo, I know your thoughts, and the devices ye wrongfully imagine against me. (Job 21:16‑17,27)

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Job 22:5‑30• ⁵Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities without end?
⁶For thou hast taken a pledge of thy brother for nought, and stripped off the clothing of the naked.
⁷Thou hast not given water to the fainting to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
⁸But the powerful man, he had the land; and the man of high rank dwelt in it.
⁹Widows hast thou sent empty away, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
¹⁰Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;
¹¹Or darkness, that thou canst not see, and floods of waters cover thee.
¹²Is not +God in the height of the heavens? And behold the summit of the stars: how exalted are they!
¹³And thou sayest, What doth *God know? will he judge through the dark cloud?
¹⁴Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh on the vault of the heavens.
¹⁵Dost thou mark the ancient path which wicked men have trodden?
¹⁶Who were carried off before the time, whose foundation was overflowed with a flood;
¹⁷Who said unto *God, Depart from us! and what could the Almighty do to them?
¹⁸Yet he filled their houses with good. But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
¹⁹The righteous see it, and are glad; and the innocent laugh them to scorn:
²⁰Is not he who rose against us destroyed, and doth not the fire consume his residue?
²¹Reconcile thyself now with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
²²Receive, I pray thee, instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.
²³If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up. If thou remove unrighteousness far from thy tents,
²⁴And put the precious ore with the dust, and the gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrents,
²⁵Then the Almighty will be thy precious ore, and silver heaped up unto thee;
²⁶Yea, then shalt thou delight thyself in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto +God:
²⁷Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows;
²⁸And thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee; and light shall shine upon thy ways.
²⁹When they are made low, then thou shalt say, Rise up! and he shall save him that is of downcast eyes.
³⁰Even him that is not innocent shall he deliver; yea, he shall be delivered by the pureness of thy hands. (Job 22:5‑30)

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Psa. 73:13• ¹³Truly have I purified my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency: (Psa. 73:13)

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Jer. 2:35• ³⁵And thou sayest, Indeed I am innocent; his anger will turn from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee because thou sayest, I have not sinned. (Jer. 2:35)

• Longing for a daysman (vers. 29-35). (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

• {v.29-31} Job hints that there is no use in his making any effort to clear himself: if he is already pronounced wicked, he labors in vain to convince God that he is not; he may wash his hands in innocency, in snow water, only to be taken by this resistless Power and plunged into the ditch! (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Be it that I am wickedf, why then do I labour in vaing?

JND Translation Notes

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Or "accounted wicked."

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Or "why do I trouble myself for nothing?"

W. Kelly Translation

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For me, I am to be guilty why labour I then in vain?