Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
I shall be condemned. Why then do 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?
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 am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that thou will not hold me innocent. 29 I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain? 30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean,
Phrases
Cross References
Job 9:22
It is all one thing. Therefore I say, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.
Job 10:2
I will say to God, Do not condemn me. Show me why thou contend with me.
Job 10:7
although thou know that I am not wicked. And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand?
Job 10:14-17
If I sin, then thou mark me. And thou will not acquit me from my iniquity.
Job 21:16-17
Lo, [is] their prosperity not in their hand. (The counsel of the wicked is far from me.)
Job 21:27
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices with which ye would wrong me.
Job 22:5-30
Is not thy wickedness great? Neither is there any end to thine iniquities.
Psalm 37:33
LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
Psalm 73:13
Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocence,
Jeremiah 2:35
Yet thou said, I am innocent. Surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee because thou say, I have not sinned.