Job 9:29
Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?
BSB
ASV
I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?
KJV
If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
But if even so I be wicked, why, then, have I laboured in vain? For if we be examined pity set aside, our work which we look to have recompensed with a reward is deserving of punishment. 'Therefore the holy man shrinking under secret judgment, says, But if even so I be wicked, why, then, have I laboured in vain? Not that he repents of having laboured, but that it grieves him even amidst labours to be in uncertainty about the reward.
If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? - The word “if,” here introduced by our translators, greatly obscures the sense. The meaning evidently is, “I am held to be guilty, and cannot answer to that charge. God regards me as such, and if I should attempt to meet him on the charge, it would be a vain attempt; and I must admit its truth. It would be labor in vain to deny it against one so mighty as he is.” This interpretation accords with the argument in the whole chapter.
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Psalms 37:33the LORD will not leave them in their power or let them be condemned under judgment.
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Job 10:7though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
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O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
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