Job 9:29 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?”
Job 9:29 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Job 9:29 in 6 Bible Translations
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Job 9:29 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?”
Job 9:29 — World English Bible
Job 9:29 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?”
Job 9:29 — American Standard Version
Job 9:29 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“I--I am become wicked; why <FI>is<Fi> this? <FI>In<Fi> vain I labour.”
Job 9:29 — Young's Literal Translation
Job 9:29 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“Be it that I am wicked, why then do I labour in vain? ”
Job 9:29 — Darby Translation
Job 9:29 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“If I be wicked, why labour I thus in vaine?”
Job 9:29 — Geneva Bible
Job 9:29 in Context — Job 9
27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
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;
31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
What Does Job 9:29 Mean?
Job 9:29 is a verse from the Book of Job, part of the Old Testament. It appears in Job chapter 9. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.
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