Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Be it that I am wicked, why then do I labour in vain?
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]?
Bible in Basic English
You will not let me be clear of sin! why then do I take trouble for nothing?
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 am afraid of all my sorrows; I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. 29 Be it that I am wicked, why then do I labour in vain? 30 If I washed myself with snow-water, and cleansed my hands in purity,
Phrases
Cross References
Job 9:22
It is all one; therefore I said, he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
Job 10:2
I will say unto +God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou strivest with me.
Job 10:7
Since thou knowest that I am not wicked, and that there is none that delivereth out of thy hand?
Job 10:14-17
If I sinned, thou wouldest mark me, and thou wouldest not acquit me of mine iniquity.
Job 21:16-17
Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked be far from me!
Job 21:27
Lo, I know your thoughts, and the devices ye wrongfully imagine against me.
Job 22:5-30
Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities without end?
Psalm 37:33
Jehovah will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
Psalm 73:13
Truly have I purified my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency:
Jeremiah 2:35
And thou sayest, Indeed I am innocent; his anger will turn from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee because thou sayest, I have not sinned.