Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
I -- I am become wicked; why is this? In vain I labour.
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?
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 have been afraid of all my griefs, I have known that Thou dost not acquit me. 29 I -- I am become wicked; why is this? In vain I labour. 30 If I have washed myself with snow-water, And purified with soap my hands,
Phrases
Cross References
Job 9:22
It is the same thing, therefore I said, 'The perfect and the wicked He is consuming.'
Job 10:2
I say unto God, 'Do not condemn me, Let me know why Thou dost strive with me.
Job 10:7
For Thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Thy hand.
Job 10:14-17
If I sinned, then Thou hast observed me, And from mine iniquity dost not acquit me,
Job 21:16-17
Lo, not in their hand is their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)
Job 21:27
Lo, I have known your thoughts, And the devices against me ye do wrongfully.
Job 22:5-30
Is not thy wickedness abundant? And there is no end to thine iniquities.
Psalm 37:33
Jehovah doth not leave him in his hand, Nor condemn him in his being judged.
Psalm 73:13
Only -- a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands,
Jeremiah 2:35
And thou sayest, 'Because I have been innocent, Surely turned back hath His anger from me?' Lo, I have been judged with thee, Because of thy saying, 'I have not sinned.'