Job 9:29

Coverdale Bible (1535)

Yf I be then a wicked one, why haue I laboured in vayne?

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  • Job 9:22 : 22 This one thige wil I saye: He destroyeth both the rightuous & vngodly.
  • Job 10:2 : 2 and will saye vnto God: O do not condemne me, but shewe me the cause, wherfore thou iudgest me on this maner.
  • Job 10:7 : 7 where as (notwithstondinge) thou knowest that I am no wicked person, & that there is no man able to delyuer me out of thine honde.
  • Job 10:14-17 : 14 Wherfore didest thou kepe me, when I synned, and hast not clensed me fro myne offence? 15 Yf I do wickedly, wo is me therfore: Yf I be rightuous, yet darre I not lift vp my heade: so full am I of confucion, and se myne owne misery. 16 Thou huntest me out (beynge in heuynesse) as it were a Lyon, and troublest me out of measure. 17 Thou bringest fresh witnesses agaynst me, thy wrath increasest thou vpon me, very many are the plages that I am in.
  • Job 21:16-17 : 16 Lo, there is vtterly no goodnesse in them, therfore will not I haue to do with the councell of the vngodly. 17 How oft shal the candle of ye wicked be put out? how oft commeth their destruccion vpon them? O what sorowe shall God geue them for their parte in his wrath?
  • Job 21:27 : 27 But I knowe what ye thinke, yee and what ye ymagin agaynst me vnrightuously.
  • Job 22:5-9 : 5 Cometh not this for ye greate wickednesse, & for thine vngracious dedes which are innumerable? 6 Thou hast take the pledge from thy brethre for naught, & robbed the naked of their clothinge: 7 To soch as were weery, hast thou geue no water to drynke, thou hast withdrawe bred fro the hungrie: 8 Shulde soch one the as vseth violece, wroge & oppression (doinge all thinges of parcialyte, & hauynge respecte of personnes) dwell in the lode? 9 Thou hast sent wyddowes awaye emptie and oppressed the poore fatherlesse. 10 Therfore art thou compased aboute with snares on euery syde, & sodely vexed wt feare. 11 Shuldest thou the se no darcknesse? Shulde not the water floude runne ouer the? 12 Now because yt God is hyer the the heauens, & because thou seist yt the starres are so hye, 13 wilt thou therfore saye: Tush, how shulde God knowe? Doth his dominion reach beyonde the cloudes? 14 Tush, the cloudes couer him, yt he maye not se, for he dwelleth in heauen. 15 Well, thou wilt kepe the olde waye, yt all wicked me haue gone: 16 both olde & yonge, whose foundacion is a runnynge water, 17 which saye vnto God: go from vs, and after this maner: Tush, what wil the Allmightie do vnto vs? 18 where as he (not with stodinge) fylleth their houses wt all good. Which meanynge of the vngodly be farre fro me. 19 For wt ioy shal the godly, and with gladnesse shal the innocent se, 20 that their increase shal be hewen downe, & their posterite consumed with the fyre. 21 Therfore recocile the vnto God, & be content, so shal all thinges prospere wt the right well. 22 Receaue the lawe at his mouth, & laye vp his wordes in thine herte. 23 For yf thou wilt turne to the Allmightie, thou shalt stonde fast, & all vnrightuousnesse shall be farre from thy dwellinge: 24 He shal geue the an haruest, which in plenty & abundaunce shall exceade the dust of the earth, and the golde of Ophir like ryuer stones. 25 Yee the Allmightie his owne self shalbe thine haruest, & the heape of thy money. 26 Then shalt thou haue thy delyte in the Allmightie, & lift vp thy face vnto God. 27 The shalt thou make thy prayer vnto him, & he shal heare the, & thou shalt kepe thy promyses. 28 The, loke what thou takest in honde, he shal make it to prospere with the, and the light shall shyne in thy wayes. 29 For who so humbleth himself, him shal he set vp: and who so loketh mekely, shalbe healed. 30 Yf thou be innocet, he shal saue the: and thorow the vngiltynesse of thyne handes shalt thou be delyuered.
  • Ps 37:33 : 33 The vngodly seyth the rightuous, & goeth aboute to slaye him.
  • Ps 73:13 : 13 Shulde I then clense my hert in vayne (thought I) & wash my hondes in innocency?
  • Jer 2:35 : 35 Yet darrest thou saye: I am giltlesse: Tush, his wrath can not come vpo me. Beholde, I wil reason with ye, because thou darrest saye: I haue not offended.

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    30 Though I wasshed my self with snowe water, and made myne hondes neuer so clene,

    31 yet shuldest thou dyppe me in ye myre, & myne owne clothes shulde defyle me.

  • 28 then am I afrayed of all my workes, for I knowe, thou fauourest not an euell doer.

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    14 Wherfore didest thou kepe me, when I synned, and hast not clensed me fro myne offence?

    15 Yf I do wickedly, wo is me therfore: Yf I be rightuous, yet darre I not lift vp my heade: so full am I of confucion, and se myne owne misery.

  • 13 Shulde I then clense my hert in vayne (thought I) & wash my hondes in innocency?

  • Job 7:20-21
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    20 I haue offended, what shal I do vnto ye, O thou preseruer off men? Why hast thou made me to stonde in thy waye, and am so heuy a burden vnto myself?

    21 Why doest thou not forgeue me my synne? Wherfore takest thou not awaye my wickednesse? Beholde, now must I slepe in the dust: and yff thou sekest me tomorow in the mornynge, I shalbe gone.

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    6 that thou makest soch inquisicion for my wickednesse, and searchest out my synne?

    7 where as (notwithstondinge) thou knowest that I am no wicked person, & that there is no man able to delyuer me out of thine honde.

  • 4 Then answerde I: I shal lese my laboure, I shal spende my strength in vayne. Neuertheles, I wil commytte my cause and my worke vnto the LORDE my God.

  • 9 I am clene without eny fawte, I am innocent, & there is no wickednesse in me.

  • Job 9:19-21
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    19 Yf men will speake of strength, he is the stogest of all: yf me will speake of rightousnes, who darre be my recorde?

    20 yf I will iustifie my self, myne owne mouth shall codemne me: yf I will put forth my self for a perfecte man, he shal proue me a wicked doer:

    21 For that I shulde be an innocent, my coscience knoweth it not, yee I my self am weery off my life.

  • 14 But seynge that God wil sytt in iudgment, what shal I do? And for so moch as he wil nedes vyset me, what answere shal I geue him?

  • 2 As for yt I knowe it is so of a treuth, yt a man compared vnto God, can not be iustified.

  • 32 Yf I haue gone amysse, enfourme me: yf I haue done wronge, I wil leaue of.

  • 3 Seinge thou sayest so, how doest thou knowe it? What thinge hast thou more excellet, the I yt am a synner?

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    3 O LORDE my God, yff I haue done eny soch thinge: yf there be eny vnrightuousnes in my hades:

  • 8 Wilt thou disanulle my iudgment? Or, wilt thou condemne me, yt thou thy self mayest be made rightuous?

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    2 and will saye vnto God: O do not condemne me, but shewe me the cause, wherfore thou iudgest me on this maner.

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    9 That he wolde begynne and smyte me: that he wolde let his honde go, & hew me downe.

    10 The shulde I haue some coforte: yee I wolde desyre him in my payne, that he shulde not spare, for I will not be agaynst ye wordes of the holy one.

    11 What power haue I to endure? Or? what is myne ende, that my soule might be paciet?

  • 18 Wherfore hast thou brought me out of my mothers wombe? O that I had perished, & that no eye had sene me.

  • 9 What profit is there in my bloude, yf I go downe to corrupcion?

  • 35 Yet darrest thou saye: I am giltlesse: Tush, his wrath can not come vpo me. Beholde, I wil reason with ye, because thou darrest saye: I haue not offended.

  • 3 Thinkest thou it now well done, to open thine eyes vpon soch one, and to brynge me before the in iudgment?

  • 7 Yf so be that I haue withdrawen my fote out of the right waye, yf my hert hath folowed myne eyesight, yf I haue stayned or defyled my hodes:

  • 47 Sela. LORDE, how longe wilt thou hyde thy self? For euer? shal thy wrath burne like fyre?

  • 4 Is it with a man, that I make this disputacio? Which yf it were so, shulde not my sprete be the in sore trouble?

  • 15 Yee though I be rightuous, yet will I not geue him one worde agayne, but mekely submytte my self to my iudge.

  • 7 Oh no, let him not do so with me. But let hym geue me like power to go to lawe, then am I sure to wynne my matter.

  • 7 Beholde, though I crie, yet violece is done vnto me, I can not be herde: Though I complane, there is none to geue sentece with me.

  • 6 Yf thou synnest, what dost thou vnto him? Yf thine offences be many, how gettest thou his fauoure?

  • 14 Wherfore do I beare my flesh in my teth, and my soule in myne hondes?

  • 5 Yf I haue cleued vnto vanite, or yf my fete haue runne to disceaue:

  • 5 But yf ye wil enhaunce yor selues agaynst me, & accuse me to be a wicked personne because of the shame that is come vpon me:

  • 19 What is he, that will go to lawe with me? For yf I holde my tonge, I shal dye.

  • 9 Doth God heare him the sooner, whe he crieth vnto him in his necessite?

  • 6 I must nedes be a lyar, though my cause be right: & violetly am I plaged, where as I made no fawte.

  • 9 Who can saye: my hert is cleane, I am innocent from synne?

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    23 How greate are my my?dedes & synnes? Let me knowe my trasgressions & offences.

    24 Wherfore hydest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemye?

  • 20 Shall not my short life come soone to an ende? O holde the fro me, let me alone, that I maye ease myself a litle:

  • 13 Am I able to helpe my self? Is not my strength gone fro me,

  • 3 As for the vngodly & he yt ioyneth himself to ye copani of wicked doers shal not destruccion & misery came vpon him?

  • 14 What is man, that he shulde be vncleane? what hath he (which is borne of a woman) wherby he might be knowne to be rightuous?