Job 9:29 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁹ I shall be condemned; why then do I labor in vain?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁹ I shall be held guilty and be condemned; why then should I labor in vain [to appear innocent]?

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

²⁹ I myself am thought guilty; why have I tried so hard in vain?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ Yet, if I am also just as impious, why have I labored in vain?

Job 9:29 Cross References

Jeremiah 2:35

you say, “I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.” Now I am bringing you to judgment for saying, “I have not sinned.”

Psalm 73:13

All in vain I have kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.

Psalm 37:33

The Lord will not abandon them to their power or let them be condemned when they are brought to trial.

Job 21:27

“Oh, I know your thoughts and your schemes to wrong me.

Job 10:7

although you know that I am not guilty, and there is no one to deliver out of your hand?

Job 10:2

I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.

Job 9:22

It is all one; therefore I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’

Job 9:20

Though I am innocent, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.

Job 33:10

Look, he finds occasions against me; he counts me as his enemy;