Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
[If] I shall be [declared] guilty, why then 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?
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?
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 become afraid of all my sufferings; I know that you do not consider me innocent. 29 [If] I shall be [declared] guilty, why then should I labor in vain? 30 If I wash myself with soap, and I cleanse my hands with lye,
Phrases
Cross References
Job 9:22
It [is all] one; therefore I say, 'He destroys [both the] blameless and [the] wicked.'
Job 10:2
I will say to God, 'You should not condemn me; let me know why you contend [against] me.
Job 10:7
because of your knowledge that I am not guilty, and there is no escaping from your hand?
Job 10:14-17
If I had sinned, then you would be watching me, and you would not acquit me of my guilt.
Job 21:16-17
Look, their prosperity [is] not in their hands; the schemes of [the] wicked are repugnant to me.
Job 21:27
"Look, I know your thoughts and [the] schemes you devise against me.
Job 22:5-30
[Is] not your wickedness great, and there is no end to your iniquities?
Psalm 37:33
Yahweh will not abandon him into his hand, and he will not let him be condemned when he is judged.
Psalm 73:13
Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure, and washed my hands in innocence.
Jeremiah 2:35
yet you say, 'But I am innocent, surely his anger has turned away from me.' Look, I [am] entering into judgment with you because of your saying, 'I have not sinned.'