Job 9:29

Modern

Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?

Traditional

If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

Literal

I am wicked; why then should I labor in vain?

Latin

Si autem et sic impius sum, quare frustra laboravi?

Hebrew

English

Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?

Job answered Bildad by describing God's universal and legal power. His speech resembles a complex legal case.

It includes:

A summons and response (9:3, 14–16, 19b, 32).
The risk of proving himself guilty (9:20).
A "mediator" (9:33–34).
A question of accusation (9:12).
A legal sentence (9:22).
A declaration of guilt (9:28–30).

Job 10:7
…though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
Job 21:16–17
Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
Psalm 73:13
Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.
Job 9:22
It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
Job 22:5–30
Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?
Psalm 37:33
…the LORD will not leave them in their power or let them be condemned under judgment.
Job 21:27
Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
Jeremiah 2:35
…you say, ‘I am innocent. Surely His anger will turn from me.’ Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
Job 10:2
I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.
Job 10:14–17
If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.