Job Chapter 9 verse 29 Holy Bible
I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?
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You will not let me be clear of sin! why then do I take trouble for nothing?
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Be it that I am wicked, why then do I labour in vain?
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If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
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If I am wicked, why then do I labor in vain?
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I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?
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I -- I am become wicked; why `is' this? `In' vain I labour.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 29. - If I be wicked; rather, I am wicked; i.e. I am accounted so - I am already condemned. The extreme afflictions raider which I suffer indicate that God has passed sentence upon me, and awarded me my punishment. Why then labour I in vain? i.e. Why argue? Why seek to justify myself, since no result is likely to follow? Nothing that I can say will alter God's foregone conclusion.