King James Version (KJV)
Job 9:29
“[If] I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?”
Verse in context — Job 9
27
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort [myself]:
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I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
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[If] I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
30
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
31
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
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