Job 9:29
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But if so also I am wicked, why have I laboured in vain?

Job 9:22 One thing there is that I have spoken, both the innocent and the wicked he consumeth.

Job 10:7,14-17 And shouldst know that I have done no wicked thing, whereas there is no man that can deliver out of thy hand? . . .

Job 21:16,17,27 Yet because their good things are not in their hand, may the counsel of the wicked be far from me. . . .

Job 22:5 And not for thy manifold wickedness and thy infinite iniquities?

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Psalm 73:13 And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent.

Jeremiah 2:35 And thou hast said: I am without sin and am innocent: and therefore let thy anger be turned away from me. Behold, I will contend with thee in judgment, because thou hast said: I have not sinned.

Context
Job: How Can I Argue with God?
28I feared all my works, knowing that thou didst not spare the offender. 29But if so also I am wicked, why have I laboured in vain?30If I be washed, as it were, with snow waters, and my hands shall shine ever so clean:…
Cross References
Job 9:20
If I would justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I would shew myself innocent, he shall prove me wicked.

Job 10:2
I will say to God: Do not condemn me: tell me why thou judgest me so?

Psalm 37:33
But the Lord will not leave him in his hands; nor condemn him when he shall be judged.

Lexicon
Since I am
אָנֹכִ֥י (’ā·nō·ḵî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 595: I

already found guilty,
אֶרְשָׁ֑ע (’er·šā‘)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 7561: To be, wrong, to disturb, violate

why
לָמָּה־ (lām·māh-)
Preposition-l | Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

should I labor
אִיגָֽע׃ (’î·ḡā‘)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 3021: To gasp, to be exhausted, to tire, to toil

in vain?
הֶ֣בֶל (he·ḇel)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1892: Emptiness, vanity, transitory, unsatisfactory


Additional Translations
Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?If I be wicked, why then labor I in vain?

I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?

But since I am ungodly, why have I not died?

Be it that I am wicked, why then do I labour in vain?

I shall be condemned; why then do I labour in vain?

If I am wicked, why then do I labor in vain?

I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

I -- I am become wicked; why is this? In vain I labour.
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