What does Job 9:29 mean?

Job 9:29 highlights themes such as faith and obedience when read in context.

How should I apply Job 9:29 today?

Read the surrounding passage, compare related cross references, and turn the verse into a short prayer and concrete action.

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

27If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:

28I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

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

30If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

31Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

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