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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• ²²This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. (Job 9:22)

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Job 10:7,14‑17• ⁷Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
¹⁴If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
¹⁵If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
¹⁶For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me.
¹⁷Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me. (Job 10:7,14‑17)

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Job 21:16‑17,27• ¹⁶Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
¹⁷How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
²⁷Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which 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 infinite?
⁶For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
⁷Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
⁸But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honorable man dwelt in it.
⁹Thou hast sent widows away empty, 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 abundance of waters cover thee.
¹²Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
¹³And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
¹⁴Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.
¹⁵Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
¹⁶Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
¹⁷Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
¹⁸Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
¹⁹The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
²⁰Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
²¹Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
²²Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
²³If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
²⁴Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
²⁵Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.
²⁶For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
²⁷Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
²⁸Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
²⁹When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.
³⁰He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands. (Job 22:5‑30)

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

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Jer. 2:35• ³⁵Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead 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?"