Parallel Verses
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?
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 troubles; I know that thou wilt not hold me guiltless.
29
Why then should I toil in vain?
Phrases
Cross References
Job 9:22
One thing remains, that I say, He consumes the perfect and the wicked.
Job 10:2
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; cause me to understand why thou dost contend with me.
Job 10:7
Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is no one that can deliver out of thy hand.
Job 10:14-17
If I sinned, wilt thou mark me and not cleanse me from my iniquity?
Job 21:16-17
Behold that their good is not in their hands; the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Job 21:27
Behold, I know your thoughts and the imaginations which ye devise against me.
Job 22:5-30
Certainly thy wickedness is great and thine iniquities have no end.
Psalm 37:33
The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
Psalm 73:13
Verily, in vain have I cleansed my heart and washed my hands in innocency
Jeremiah 2:35
Yet thou didst say, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee because thou hast said, I did not sin.