Job 9:29

If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

Job 9:29 · King James Version

In other versions

I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?
ASV
You will not let me be clear of sin! why then do I take trouble for nothing?
BBE
Be it that I am wicked, why then do I labour in vain?
DBY
I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?
WEB
I -- I am become wicked; why `is' this? `In' vain I labour.
YLT
If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
ENG
If I am wicked, why then do I labor in vain?
WBT
Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?
BSB

²⁷If 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.

²⁹If 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.