Verse 29

If I be wicked, why labour I thus in vaine?

Referenced Verses

  • Job 9:22 : 22 This is one point: therefore I said, Hee destroyeth the perfite and the wicked.
  • Job 10:2 : 2 I will say vnto God, Condemne mee not: shew me, wherefore thou contendest with mee.
  • Job 10:7 : 7 Thou knowest that I can not do wickedly: for none can deliuer me out of thine hand.
  • Job 10:14-17 : 14 If I haue sinned, then thou wilt streightly looke vnto me, and wilt not holde mee giltlesse of mine iniquitie. 15 If I haue done wickedly, wo vnto me: if I haue done righteously, I will not lift vp mine head, being full of confusion, because I see mine affliction. 16 But let it increase: hunt thou me as a lyon: returne and shew thy selfe marueilous vpon me. 17 Thou renuest thy plagues against me, and thou increasest thy wrath against me: changes and armies of sorowes are against me.
  • Job 21:16-17 : 16 Lo, their wealth is not in their hand: therfore let the counsell of the wicked bee farre from me. 17 How oft shal the candle of the wicked be put out? and their destruction come vpon them? he wil deuide their liues in his wrath.
  • Job 21:27 : 27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the enterprises, wherewith ye do me wrong.
  • Job 22:5-9 : 5 Is not thy wickednes great, and thine iniquities innumerable? 6 For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for nought, and spoyled the clothes of the naked. 7 To such as were wearie, thou hast not giuen water to drinke, and hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie. 8 But the mightie man had the earth, and he that was in autoritie, dwelt in it. 9 Thou hast cast out widowes emptie, & the armes of the fatherles were broken. 10 Therefore snares are round about thee, and feare shal suddenly trouble thee: 11 Or darkenes that thou shouldest not see, & abundance of waters shal couer thee. 12 Is not God on hie in the heauen? and behold the height of the starres how hie they are. 13 But thou sayest, How should God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude? 14 The cloudes hide him that he can not see, and he walketh in the circle of heauen. 15 Hast thou marked the way of the worlde, wherein wicked men haue walked? 16 Which were cut downe before the time, whose foundation was as a riuer that ouerflowed: 17 Which sayd vnto God, Depart from vs, & asked what the Almightie could do for them. 18 Yet hee filled their houses with good things: but let the counsell of the wicked be farre from me. 19 The righteous shal see them, & shal reioyce, and the innocent shal laugh them to scorne. 20 Surely our substance is hid: but the fire hath deuoured the remnant of them. 21 Therefore acquaint thy selfe, I pray thee, with him, and make peace: thereby thou shalt haue prosperitie. 22 Receiue, I pray thee, the law of his mouth, and lay vp his words in thine heart. 23 If thou returne to the Almightie, thou shalt be buylt vp, and thou shalt put iniquitie farre from thy tabernacle. 24 Thou shalt lay vp golde for dust, and the gold of Ophir, as the flintes of the riuers. 25 Yea, the Almightie shalbe thy defence, and thou shalt haue plentie of siluer. 26 And thou shalt then delite in the Almightie, and lift vp thy face vnto God. 27 Thou shalt make thy praier vnto him, & he shal heare thee, & thou shalt render thy vowes. 28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and he shal establish it vnto thee, and the light shall shine vpon thy wayes. 29 When others are cast downe, then shalt thou say, I am lifted vp: and God shall saue the humble person. 30 The innocent shal deliuer the yland, & it shalbe preserued by the purenes of thine hands.
  • Ps 37:33 : 33 But the Lord wil not leaue him in his hand, nor condemne him, when he is iudged.
  • Ps 73:13 : 13 Certainely I haue clensed mine heart in vaine, and washed mine hands in innocencie.
  • Jer 2:35 : 35 Yet thou saiest, Because I am giltles, surely his wrath shall turne from mee: beholde, I will enter with thee into iudgement, because thou saiest, I haue not sinned.