Job 9:29

Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad

²⁸ I am afraid of all my pains,
I know that You will not acquit me.
²⁹ “I am accounted wicked,
Why then should I toil in vain?
³⁰ “If I should wash myself with snow
And cleanse my hands with lye,

Labor In Vain

Job

Sin

Job 9:22

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

Job 10:2

“I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me;
Let me know why You contend with me.

Job 10:7

‘According to Your knowledge I am indeed not guilty,
Yet there is no deliverance from Your hand.

Job 10:14-17

If I sin, then You would take note of me,
And would not acquit me of my guilt.

Job 21:16-17

“Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand;
The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Job 21:27

“Behold, I know your thoughts,
And the plans by which you would wrong me.

Job 22:5-30

“Is not your wickedness great,
And your iniquities without end?

Psalm 37:33

The Lord will not leave him in his hand
Or let him be condemned when he is judged.

Psalm 73:13

Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure
And washed my hands in innocence;

Jeremiah 2:35

Yet you said, ‘I am innocent;
Surely His anger is turned away from me.’
Behold, I will enter into judgment with you
Because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’