Parallel Verses
NET Bible
If I am guilty, why then weary myself 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?
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?
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 dread all my sufferings, for I know that you do not hold me blameless. 29 If I am guilty, why then weary myself in vain? 30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands clean with lye,
Phrases
Cross References
Job 9:22
"It is all one! That is why I say, 'He destroys the blameless and the guilty.'
Job 10:2
I will say to God, 'Do not condemn me; tell me why you are contending with me.'
Job 10:7
although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?
Job 10:14-17
If I sinned, then you would watch me and you would not acquit me of my iniquity.
Job 21:16-17
But their prosperity is not their own doing. The counsel of the wicked is far from me!
Job 21:27
"Yes, I know what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
Job 22:5-30
Is not your wickedness great and is there no end to your iniquity?
Psalm 37:33
But the Lord does not surrender the godly, or allow them to be condemned in a court of law.
Psalm 73:13
I concluded, "Surely in vain I have kept my motives pure and maintained a pure lifestyle.
Jeremiah 2:35
you say, 'I have not done anything wrong, so the Lord cannot really be angry with me any more.' But, watch out! I will bring down judgment on you because you say, 'I have not committed any sin.'