Job 9:29 · KJV
“{If} I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?”
— Job 9:29
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
Job 9 — Context
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort {myself}:
28I 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?
30If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
31Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. {abhor...: or, make me to be abhorred}
Cross References
Job 10:7
Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and {there is} none that can deliver out of thine hand. {Thou...: Heb. It is upon thy knowledge}
Job 21:16-17
Lo, their good {is} not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
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.
Psalms 73:13
Verily I have cleansed my heart {in} vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
Job 10:2
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
Job 22:5-30
{Is} not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
Job 21:27
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices {which} ye wrongfully imagine against me.
Job 10:14-17
If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.