Verse 29

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

Referenced Verses

  • Job 9:22 : 22 It is the same thing, therefore I said, `The perfect and the wicked He is consuming.'
  • Job 10:2 : 2 I say unto God, `Do not condemn me, Let me know why Thou dost strive `with' me.
  • Job 10:7 : 7 For Thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Thy hand.
  • Job 10:14-17 : 14 If I sinned, then Thou hast observed me, And from mine iniquity dost not acquit me, 15 If I have done wickedly -- wo to me, And righteously -- I lift not up my head, Full of shame -- then see my affliction, 16 And it riseth -- as a lion Thou huntest me. And Thou turnest back -- Thou shewest Thyself wonderful in me. 17 Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And dost multiply Thine anger with me, Changes and warfare `are' with me.
  • Job 21:16-17 : 16 Lo, not in their hand `is' their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.) 17 How oft is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, And come on them doth their calamity? Pangs He apportioneth in His anger.
  • Job 21:27 : 27 Lo, I have known your thoughts, And the devices against me ye do wrongfully.
  • Job 22:5-9 : 5 Is not thy wickedness abundant? And there is no end to thine iniquities. 6 For thou takest a pledge of thy brother for nought, And the garments of the naked Thou dost strip off. 7 Thou causest not the weary to drink water, And from the hungry thou withholdest bread. 8 As to the man of arm -- he hath the earth, And the accepted of face -- he dwelleth in it. 9 Widows thou hast sent away empty, And the arms of the fatherless are bruised. 10 Therefore round about thee `are' snares, And trouble thee doth fear suddenly. 11 Or darkness -- thou dost not see, And abundance of waters doth cover thee. 12 Is not God high `in' heaven? And see the summit of the stars, That they are high. 13 And thou hast said, `What -- hath God known? Through thickness doth He judge? 14 Thick clouds `are' a secret place to Him, And He doth not see;' And the circle of the heavens He walketh habitually, 15 The path of the age dost thou observe, That men of iniquity have trodden? 16 Who have been cut down unexpectedly, A flood is poured out on their foundation. 17 Those saying to God, `Turn aside from us,' And what doth the Mighty One to them? 18 And he hath filled their houses `with' good: (And the counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.) 19 See do the righteous and they rejoice, And the innocent mocketh at them, 20 `Surely our substance hath not been cut off, And their excellency hath fire consumed.' 21 Acquaint thyself, I pray thee, with Him, And be at peace, Thereby thine increase `is' good. 22 Receive, I pray thee, from His mouth a law, And set His sayings in thy heart. 23 If thou dost return unto the Mighty Thou art built up, Thou puttest iniquity far from thy tents. 24 So as to set on the dust a defence, And on a rock of the valleys a covering. 25 And the Mighty hath been thy defence, And silver `is' strength to thee. 26 For then on the Mighty thou delightest thyself, And dost lift up unto God thy face, 27 Thou dost make supplication unto Him, And He doth hear thee, And thy vows thou completest. 28 And thou decreest a saying, And it is established to thee, And on thy ways hath light shone. 29 For they have made low, And thou sayest, `Lift up.' And the bowed down of eyes he saveth. 30 He delivereth the not innocent, Yea, he hath been delivered By the cleanness of thy hands.
  • Ps 37:33 : 33 Jehovah doth not leave him in his hand, Nor condemn him in his being judged.
  • Ps 73:13 : 13 Only -- a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands,
  • Jer 2:35 : 35 And thou sayest, `Because I have been innocent, Surely turned back hath His anger from me?' Lo, I have been judged with thee, Because of thy saying, `I have not sinned.'