Job 9:29 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

More versions

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

Job 10:2

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

Job 10:7

although thou knowest that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of thy hand?

Job 21:27

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

Job 33:10

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

Job 9:20

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

Job 9:22

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

Psalm 37:33

The Lord will not abandon him to his power, or let him be condemned when he is brought to trial.

Psalm 73:13

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

Jeremiah 2:35

you say, ‘I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.’ Behold, I will bring you to judgment for saying, ‘I have not sinned.’