Job 9:29

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 9:22 : 22 "It is all the same. Therefore I say, He destroys the blameless and the wicked.
  • Job 10:2 : 2 I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me, Show me why you contend with me.
  • Job 10:7 : 7 Although you know that I am not wicked, There is no one who can deliver out of your hand.
  • Job 10:14-17 : 14 If I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity. 15 If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, Being filled with disgrace, And conscious of my affliction. 16 If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me. 17 You renew your witnesses against me, And increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.
  • Job 21:16-17 : 16 Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me. 17 "How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes on them? That God distributes sorrows in his anger?
  • Job 21:27 : 27 "Behold, I know your thoughts, The devices with which you would wrong me.
  • Job 22:5-9 : 5 Isn't your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities. 6 For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, And stripped the naked of their clothing. 7 You haven't given water to the weary to drink, And you have withheld bread from the hungry. 8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it. 9 You have sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken. 10 Therefore snares are round about you. Sudden fear troubles you, 11 Or darkness, so that you can not see, And floods of waters cover you. 12 "Isn't God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are! 13 You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness? 14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn't see. He walks on the vault of the sky.' 15 Will you keep the old way Which wicked men have trodden, 16 Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream, 17 Who said to God, 'Depart from us;' And, 'What can the Almighty do for us?' 18 Yet he filled their houses with good things, But the counsel of the wicked is far from me. 19 The righteous see it, and are glad; The innocent ridicule them, 20 Saying, 'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off, The fire has consumed the remnant of them.' 21 "Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. Thereby good shall come to you. 22 Please receive instruction from his mouth, And lay up his words in your heart. 23 If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, If you put away unrighteousness far from your tents. 24 Lay your treasure in the dust, The gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks. 25 The Almighty will be your treasure, Precious silver to you. 26 For then shall you delight yourself in the Almighty, And shall lift up your face to God. 27 You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You shall pay your vows. 28 You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you. Light shall shine on your ways. 29 When they cast down, you shall say, 'be lifted up.' He will save the humble person. 30 He will even deliver him who is not innocent; Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands."
  • Ps 37:33 : 33 Yahweh will not leave him in his hand, Nor condemn him when he is judged.
  • Ps 73:13 : 13 Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, And washed my hands in innocence,
  • Jer 2:35 : 35 Yet you said, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with you, because you say, I have not sinned.

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  • Job 9:30-31
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    30 If I wash myself with snow, And cleanse my hands with lye,

    31 Yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.

  • 28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.

  • Job 10:14-15
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    14 If I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

    15 If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, Being filled with disgrace, And conscious of my affliction.

  • 13 Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, And washed my hands in innocence,

  • Job 7:20-21
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    20 If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, So that I am a burden to myself?

    21 Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."

  • Job 10:6-7
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    6 That you inquire after my iniquity, And search after my sin?

    7 Although you know that I am not wicked, There is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

  • 4 But I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice [due] to me is with Yahweh, and my recompense with my God.

  • 9 'I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me:

  • Job 9:19-21
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    73%

    19 If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, 'Who,' says he, 'will summon me?'

    20 Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.

    21 I am blameless. I don't regard myself. I despise my life.

  • 14 What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?

  • 2 "Truly I know that it is so, But how can man be just with God?

  • 32 Teach me that which I don't see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?

  • 3 That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'

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    3 Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, If there is iniquity in my hands,

  • 8 Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

  • Job 10:2-3
    2 verses
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    2 I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me, Show me why you contend with me.

    3 Is it good to you that you should oppress, That you should despise the work of your hands, And smile on the counsel of the wicked?

  • Job 6:9-11
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    9 Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

    10 Be it still my consolation, Yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

    11 What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?

  • 18 "'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

  • 9 "What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?

  • 35 Yet you said, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with you, because you say, I have not sinned.

  • 3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, And bring me into judgment with you?

  • 7 If my step has turned out of the way, If my heart walked after my eyes, If any defilement has stuck to my hands,

  • 47 Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!

  • 4 As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?

  • 15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer. I would make supplication to my judge.

  • 7 There the upright might reason with him, So I should be delivered forever from my judge.

  • 7 "Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.

  • 6 If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

  • 14 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?

  • 5 "If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot has hurried to deceit

  • 5 If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;

  • 19 Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

  • 9 Will God hear his cry, When trouble comes on him?

  • 6 Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar; My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.'

  • 9 Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"

  • Job 13:23-24
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    23 How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.

    24 Why hide you your face, And hold me for your enemy?

  • 20 Aren't my days few? Cease then, Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

  • 13 Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?

  • 3 Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?

  • 14 What is man, that he should be clean? He who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?