Verse 29

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

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  • Job 9:22 : 22 This is one thing, therefore I have said it, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.
  • Job 10:2 : 2 I will say to God, Do not condemn me; show me why You contend with me.
  • Job 10:7 : 7 You know that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of Your hand.
  • Job 10:14-17 : 14 If I sin, then You mark me, and You will not acquit me from my iniquity. 15 If I am wicked, woe to me; and if I am righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see my affliction; 16 For it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion; and again You show Yourself marvelous upon me. 17 You renew Your witnesses against me, and increase Your indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
  • Job 21:16-17 : 16 Indeed, their prosperity is not in their hand; the counsel of the wicked is far from me. 17 How often is the lamp of the wicked put out! And how often does their destruction come upon them! God distributes sorrows in His anger.
  • Job 21:27 : 27 Behold, I know your thoughts and the schemes you wrongfully imagine against me.
  • Job 22:5-9 : 5 Is not your wickedness great, and your iniquities infinite? 6 For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, 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 as for the mighty man, he possessed the land; and the honorable man lived in it. 9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken. 10 Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden fear troubles you; 11 Or darkness, that you cannot see; and an abundance of waters covers you. 12 Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the height of the stars, how high they are! 13 And you say, 'How does God know? Can He judge through the dense cloud? 14 Thick clouds are a covering to Him, so that He does not see; and He walks on the circuit of heaven.' 15 Have you marked the old way which wicked men have trodden, 16 Who were cut down before their time, whose foundations were swept away by a flood? 17 They 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, and the innocent laugh them to scorn. 20 Our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumes. 21 Acquaint yourself with Him now and be at peace; thereby good will come to you. 22 Receive, I pray you, the law from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart. 23 If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, and you shall put away iniquity far from your tents. 24 Then you shall lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks. 25 Yes, the Almighty shall be your defense, and you shall have plenty of silver. 26 For then you shall have your delight in the Almighty, and lift up your face to God. 27 You shall make your prayer to Him, and He shall hear you, and you shall pay your vows. 28 You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established for you, and light shall shine upon your ways. 29 When they cast down, then you shall say, 'There is lifting up;' and He shall save the humble person. 30 He shall deliver the island of the innocent; and it is delivered by the purity of your hands.
  • Ps 37:33 : 33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
  • Ps 73:13 : 13 Surely I have kept my heart pure in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.
  • Jer 2:35 : 35 Yet you say, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with you, because you say, I have not sinned.