“If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?”
Job 9:29 (KJV) |
Job 9:29
From Job 9, in the Book of Job (Old Testament).
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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?
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If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
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Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.