Job 9:29 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁹If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

Job 9:29 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 10:7
Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
Job 10:2
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
Job 21:16-17
Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me. …
Job 9:22
This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
Job 10:14-17
If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. …

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Atheism Attributes of God Depravity of Man God Guidance Lord Majesty

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 25-35)

Job here grows more and more querulous, and does not conclude this chapter with such reverent expressions of God’s wisdom and justice as he began with. Those that indulge a complaining humour know not to what indecencies, nay, to what impieties, it will hurry them. The beginning of that strife with God is as the letting forth of water; therefore leave it off before it be meddled with. When we are…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 29)

29. The “if” is better omitted; I (am treated by God as) wicked; why then labor I in vain (to disprove His charge)? Job submits, not so much because he is convinced that God is right, as because God is powerful and he weak [Barnes].