NASB
""I am accounted wicked, Why then should I toil in vain?"
— Job 9:29, NASB
“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 slip by like reed boats, Like an eagle that swoops on its prey.
"Though I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my sad countenance and be cheerful,'
I am afraid of all my pains, I know that You will not acquit me.
"I am accounted wicked, Why then should I toil in vain?
"If I should wash myself with snow And cleanse my hands with lye,
Yet You would plunge me into the pit, And my own clothes would abhor me.
"For He is not a man as I am that I may answer Him, That we may go to court together.