Job 9:29

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Since I am already condemned, why should I labor in vain?

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  • Job 9:22 : 22 It makes no difference; therefore, I declare: He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.
  • Job 10:2 : 2 I will say to God: Do not condemn me; tell me why You contend with me.
  • Job 10:7 : 7 You know that I am not wicked, and that no one can deliver me from Your hand.
  • Job 10:14-17 : 14 If I sin, You watch me, and You will not acquit me of my guilt. 15 If I am wicked, woe to me; if I am righteous, I dare not lift my head, filled with shame and seeing my misery. 16 If I rise up, You hunt me like a lion, and again show Your power against me. 17 You bring new witnesses against me and increase Your anger toward me, bringing forces and hostilities against me.
  • Job 21:16-17 : 16 But their prosperity is not in their own hands, so the counsel of the wicked is far from me. 17 How often is the lamp of the wicked extinguished? Disaster comes upon them as calamities God apportions in his anger.
  • Job 21:27 : 27 Behold, I know your thoughts and the schemes you plot against me.
  • Job 22:5-9 : 5 Is not your wickedness great and your iniquities without end? 6 For you have taken pledges from your brothers without cause, and stripped the naked of their clothing. 7 You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry. 8 But the powerful man owns the land, and the honored man dwells in it. 9 You sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed. 10 That is why snares are all around you, and sudden terror overwhelms you. 11 It is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of waters covers you. 12 Is not God in the height of heaven? Look at the distant stars; how high they are! 13 But you say, 'What does God know? Can He judge through such thick darkness?' 14 Clouds cover Him so He cannot see as He walks on the circle of the heavens. 15 Will you keep to the ancient path that wicked men have walked? 16 They were snatched away before their time, and their foundation was swept away by a flood. 17 They said to God, 'Depart from us! What can the Almighty do to us?' 18 Yet it was He who filled their houses with good things, though the counsel of the wicked is far from me. 19 The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent mock them. 20 Surely our enemies are destroyed, and fire has consumed their wealth. 21 Be reconciled with God now, and at peace with Him; this will bring good to you. 22 Accept instruction from His mouth and place His words in your heart. 23 If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice far from your tent, 24 and assign your gold to the dust, and the gold of Ophir to the rocks in the ravines, 25 then the Almighty will be your gold and your precious silver. 26 For then you will take delight in the Almighty and lift up your face to God. 27 You will pray to Him, and He will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows. 28 Whatever you decide will succeed, and light will shine on your ways. 29 When people are humbled and you say, 'Lift them up,' God will save the downcast. 30 He will even deliver one who is not innocent, who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.
  • Ps 37:33 : 33 The LORD will not leave him in the hands of the wicked or condemn him when he is judged.
  • Ps 73:13 : 13 Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure and washed my hands in innocence.
  • Jer 2:35 : 35 Yet you say, 'I am innocent; surely his anger has turned away from me.' But I will bring you to judgment because you say, 'I have not sinned.'

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  • Job 9:30-31
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    30Even if I washed myself with snow and cleansed my hands with soap,

    31You would plunge me into a pit, and even my clothes would abhor me.

  • Job 9:28
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    28I still dread all my suffering, for I know You will not hold me innocent.

  • Job 10:14-15
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    14If I sin, You watch me, and You will not acquit me of my guilt.

    15If I am wicked, woe to me; if I am righteous, I dare not lift my head, filled with shame and seeing my misery.

  • Ps 73:13
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    13Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure and washed my hands in innocence.

  • Job 7:20-21
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    20If I have sinned, what have I done to you, you who see everything we do? Why have you made me your target? Have I become a burden to you?

    21Why do you not pardon my offenses and forgive my sins? For I will soon lie down in the dust; you will search for me, but I will be no more.

  • Job 10:6-7
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    6Do You search for my iniquity and investigate my sin?

    7You know that I am not wicked, and that no one can deliver me from Your hand.

  • Isa 49:4
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    4But I said, 'I have worked in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing and futility. Yet surely my vindication is with the Lord, and my reward is with my God.'

  • Job 33:9
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    9'I am pure, without sin; I am innocent, and there is no iniquity in me.'

  • Job 9:19-21
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    19If it is a matter of strength, He is mighty! And if it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him?

    20Even if I were righteous, my own mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would prove me perverse.

    21Though I am blameless, I do not even understand myself; I despise my life.

  • Job 31:14
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    14what will I do when God confronts me? What will I answer when He calls me to account?

  • Job 9:2
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    2Truly, I know this is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?

  • Job 34:32
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    32'Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.'

  • Job 35:3
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    3For you ask, 'What advantage is it to me? What do I gain by not sinning?'

  • Ps 7:3
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    3Otherwise, they will tear me apart like a lion, ripping me to pieces with no one to rescue.

  • Job 40:8
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    8Would you indeed annul My justice? Would you condemn Me that you may be justified?

  • Job 10:2-3
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    2I will say to God: Do not condemn me; tell me why You contend with me.

    3Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands, while You favor the plans of the wicked?

  • Job 6:9-11
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    9That God would be willing to crush me, to let loose His hand and cut me off!

    10It would still be my comfort— I would even exult in the midst of unrelenting pain— for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

    11What is my strength, that I should hope? What is my end, that I should prolong my life?

  • Job 10:18
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    18Why then did You bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died and no eye had seen me.

  • Ps 30:9
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    9To You, O LORD, I call; to the Lord I plead for mercy:

  • Jer 2:35
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    35Yet you say, 'I am innocent; surely his anger has turned away from me.' But I will bring you to judgment because you say, 'I have not sinned.'

  • Job 14:3
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    3Do you fix your gaze on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?

  • Job 31:7
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    7If my steps have turned from the way, or if my heart has followed my eyes, or if any stain has clung to my hands,

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    47How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath keep burning like fire?

  • Job 21:4
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    4Is my complaint directed to a man? Why then should my spirit not be impatient?

  • Job 9:15
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    15Even if I were righteous, I could not answer Him; I could only plead for mercy with my judge.

  • Job 23:7
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    7There the upright could reason with him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

  • Job 19:7
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    7Behold, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I call for help, but there is no justice.

  • Job 35:6
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    6If you sin, what do you accomplish against God? Even if your transgressions are many, what do you do to Him?

  • Job 13:14
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    14Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hands?

  • Job 31:5
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    5If I have walked with falsehood or my foot has hurried to deceit,

  • Job 19:5
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    5If indeed you are exalting yourselves over me and using my disgrace to argue against me,

  • Job 13:19
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    19Who can contend with me? For now, if I am silent, I will perish.

  • Job 27:9
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    9Will God listen to his cry when distress comes upon him?

  • Job 34:6
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    6Though I am innocent, I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I have committed no offense.

  • Prov 20:9
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    9Who can say, 'I have cleansed my heart; I am pure from my sin'?

  • Job 13:23-24
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    23How many are my iniquities and sins? Reveal my transgression and my sin to me.

    24Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?

  • Job 10:20
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    20Are not my days few? Leave me alone, so I may have a moment of relief.

  • Job 6:13
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    13Indeed, there is no help in me, and ability has been driven from me.

  • Job 31:3
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    3Is it not disaster for the wicked and calamity for those who do evil?

  • Job 15:14
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    14What is man, that he could be pure, or one born of a woman, that he could be righteous?