American Standard Version
"I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain? "
— Job 9:29, American Standard Version
“If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?”
“I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?”
“If I am guilty, why then weary myself in vain?”
“But if so also I am wicked, why have I laboured in vain?”
“You will not let me be clear of sin! why then do I take trouble for nothing?”
“If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?”
They are passed away as the swift ships; As the eagle that swoopeth on the prey.
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer;
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?
If I wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never so clean;
Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me.
For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, That we should come together in judgment.