Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
why should 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?
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?
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 know You will not acquit me.
why should I labor in vain?
and cleanse my hands with lye,
Phrases
Cross References
Job 9:22
“He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.”
Job 10:2
“Do not declare me guilty!
Let me know why You prosecute me.
Job 10:7
and that there is no one who can deliver from Your hand?
Job 10:14-17
and would not acquit me of my wrongdoing.
Job 21:16-17
The counsel of the wicked is far from me!
Job 21:27
the schemes you would wrong me with.
Job 22:5-30
and aren’t your iniquities endless?
Psalm 37:33
in the power of the wicked one
or allow him to be condemned when he is judged.
Psalm 73:13
and wash my hands in innocence for nothing?
Jeremiah 2:35
His anger is sure to turn away from me.”
But I will certainly judge you
because you have said, “I have not sinned.”