Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Shall I do evil, wherefore this shall I labor 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?
Darby Translation
Be it that I am wicked, why then do I labour 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 was afraid of all my pains, I knew that thou wilt not acquit me. 29 Shall I do evil, wherefore this shall I labor in vain? 30 If I washed myself in snow-water, and cleansed my hands clean;
Phrases
Cross References
Job 9:22
It is one: for this, I said, The blameless one and the unjust one he finishes.
Job 10:2
Saying to God, Thou wilt not condemn me; make known to me for what thou wilt contend with me.
Job 10:7
Upon thy knowledge that I will not do evil; and none delivering from thy hand.
Job 10:14-17
If I sinned; and thou didst watch me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
Job 21:16-17
Behold, their good not in the hand: the counsel of the unjust was far from me.
Job 21:27
Behold, I knew your purposes, and the devices ye will shake off against me.
Job 22:5-30
Is not thine evil much? and no end to thine iniquities?
Psalm 37:33
Jehovah will not leave him in his Land, and he will not condemn him in his being judged.
Psalm 73:13
Surely in vain I cleansed my heart, and I will wash my hands in cleanness.
Jeremiah 2:35
And thou wilt say, Because I was innocent his anger turned back from me. Behold me judging thee for thy saying, I sinned not