Catholic Public Domain Version
"Yet, if I am also just as impious, why have I labored in vain? "
— Job 9:29, Catholic Public Domain Version
“If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?”
“I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor 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 have passed by like ships carrying fruits, just like an eagle flying to food.
If I say: “By no means will I speak this way.” I change my face and I am tortured with sorrow.
I have dreaded all my works, knowing that you did not spare the offender.
Yet, if I am also just as impious, why have I labored in vain?
If I had been washed with snow-like waters, and my hands were shining like the cleanest thing,
yet you would plunge me in filth, and my own garments would abhor me.
For even I would not answer a man who were like myself, nor one who could be heard with me equally in judgment.