Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
You will not let me be clear of sin! why then do I take trouble for nothing?
New American Standard Bible
Why then should I toil in vain?
King James Version
If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
Holman Bible
why should I labor in vain?
International Standard Version
I will be condemned, so why should I wear myself out with this futility?
A Conservative Version
I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?
American Standard Version
I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?
Amplified
“I am accounted wicked and held guilty;
Why then should I labor in vain [to appear innocent]?
Darby Translation
Be it that I am wicked, why then do I labour in vain?
Julia Smith Translation
Shall I do evil, wherefore this shall I labor in vain?
King James 2000
If I am wicked, why then labor I in vain?
Lexham Expanded Bible
[If] I shall be [declared] guilty, why then should I labor in vain?
Modern King James verseion
I have been condemned; why then should I labor in vain?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If I be then a wicked doer, why have I laboured in vain?
NET Bible
If I am guilty, why then weary myself in vain?
New Heart English Bible
I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?
The Emphasized Bible
I, shall be held guilty, - Wherefore then, in vain, should I toil?
Webster
If I am wicked, why then do I labor in vain?
World English Bible
I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?
Youngs Literal Translation
I -- I am become wicked; why is this? In vain I labour.
References
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 9:29
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad
28 I go in fear of all my pains; I am certain that I will not be free from sin in your eyes. 29 You will not let me be clear of sin! why then do I take trouble for nothing? 30 If I am washed with snow water, and make my hands clean with soap;
Phrases
Cross References
Job 9:22
It is all the same to me; so I say, He puts an end to the sinner and to him who has done no wrong together.
Job 10:2
I will say to God, Do not put me down as a sinner; make clear to me what you have against me.
Job 10:7
Though you see that I am not an evil-doer; and there is no one who is able to take a man out of your hands?
Job 10:14-17
That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin:
Job 21:16-17
Truly, is not their well-being in their power? (The purpose of the evil-doers is far from me.)
Job 21:27
See, I am conscious of your thoughts, and of your violent purposes against me;
Job 22:5-30
Is not your evil-doing great? and there is no end to your sins.
Psalm 37:33
The Lord will not give him into their hands, or be against him when he is judged.
Psalm 73:13
As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness;
Jeremiah 2:35
And still you said, I have done no wrong; truly, his wrath is turned away from me. See, I will take up the cause against you, because you say, I have done no wrong.