Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If I be then a wicked doer, why have I laboured 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?
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?
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 Then am I afraid of all my works, for I know thou wilt not judge me innocent. 29 If I be then a wicked doer, why have I laboured in vain? 30 Though I washed my self with snowy water, and made mine hands never so clean,
Phrases
Cross References
Job 9:22
"This one thing will I say: He destroyeth both the righteous and ungodly.
Job 10:2
and will say unto God: O do not condemn me; but show me the cause, wherefore thou contendest so with me.
Job 10:7
Whereas, notwithstanding, thou knowest that I am no wicked person, and that there is no man able to deliver me out of thine hand.
Job 10:14-17
"If I did sin, thou haddest an eye unto me, and shalt not declare me innocent because of mine offense.
Job 21:16-17
Lo, there is utterly no goodness in them, therefore will not I have to do with the counsel of the ungodly.
Job 21:27
"But I know what ye think; yea, and what ye imagine against me unrighteously.
Job 22:5-30
Is not thy wickedness great, and thine ungracious deeds innumerable?
Psalm 37:33
But the LORD will not leave him in his hands, nor condemn him when he is judged.
Psalm 73:13
and I said, "Then have I cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency?
Jeremiah 2:35
Yet darest thou say, 'I am guiltless: Tush, his wrath cannot come upon me.' Behold, I will reason with thee because thou darest say, 'I have not offended.'