Job 9:29

In 11 translations

BSB

Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?

KJV

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

WEB

I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

ASV

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

LSV

I become wicked; why [is] this? I labor [in] vain.

YLT

I — I am become wicked; why [is] this? [In] vain I labour.

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

If I be wicked, why labour I thus in vaine?

JPS

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

LXXE

But since I am ungodly, why have I not died?

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WLC

אָנֹכִ֥י אֶרְשָׁ֑ע לָמָּה־זֶּ֝֗ה הֶ֣בֶל אִיגָֽע׃

LXX-Br

Ἐπειδὴ δέ εἰμι ἀσεβὴς, διὰ τί οὐκ ἀπέθανον;

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• Job 10:7though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
• Job 10:2I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.
• Job 21:16–17Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked. How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?
• Jeremiah 2:35you say, ‘I am innocent. Surely His anger will turn from me.’ Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
• Job 9:22It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
• Psalms 73:13Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.
• Job 22:5–30Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless? For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing. You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the…
• Job 21:27Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
• Psalms 37:33the LORD will not leave them in their power or let them be condemned under judgment.
• Job 10:14–17If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity. If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction. Should I hold my…

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