Parallel Verses
King James Version
If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
New American Standard Bible
Why then should I toil 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 sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. 29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? 30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
Phrases
Cross References
Job 9:22
This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
Job 10:2
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
Job 10:7
Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
Job 10:14-17
If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
Job 21:16-17
Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Job 21:27
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
Job 22:5-30
Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
Psalm 37:33
The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
Psalm 73:13
Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
Jeremiah 2:35
Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.