29If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?


In Context

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 me.

Job 9:29 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

9:29Since I am already found guilty, why should I struggle in vain?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

9:29But if so also I am wicked, why have I laboured in vain?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

9:29I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:29Be it that I am wicked, why then do I labour in vain?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

9:29I shall be condemned; why then do I labour in vain?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:29If I am wicked, why then do I labor in vain?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:29I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

9:29I — I am become wicked; why is this? In vain I labour.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:29If I be wicked, why then labor I in vain?