King James Version

Job 9:29

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

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אָנֹכִ֥יanokhimeאָנֹכִיpronoun, personal, 1st person, common, singular — “me”H595II, me, [idiom] which.אֶרְשָׁ֑עershabe wickedרָשַׁעverb, qal, imperfect, 1st person, common, singular — “be wicked”, an unfinished actionH7561to be (causatively, do or declare) wrong; by implication, to disturb, violatecondemn, make trouble, vex, be (commit, deal, depart, do) wicked(-ly, -ness).לָמָּהlamahto howמָהpreposition, particle, interrogative — “to how”H4100properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senseshow (long, oft, (-soever)), (no-) thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.זֶּ֝֗הzehthe one...the otherזֶהpronoun, demonstrative, masculine, singular — “the one...the other”H2088the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or thathe, [idiom] hence, [idiom] here, it(-self), [idiom] now, [idiom] of him, the one...the other, [idiom] than the other, ([idiom] out of) the (self) same, such (a one) that, these, this (hath, man), on this side...on that side, [idiom] thus,…הֶ֣בֶלhevelvanityהֶבֶלnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “vanity”, the ordinary formH1892emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb[idiom] altogether, vain, vanity.אִיגָֽעigafaintיָגַעverb, qal, imperfect, 1st person, common, singular — “faint”, an unfinished actionH3021properly, to gasp; hence, to be exhausted, to tire, to toilfaint, (make to) labour, (be) weary.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

I shall be condemned; why then do I labour in vain?

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American Standard Version (1901)

I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?

Young’s Literal Translation

I — I am become wicked; why [is] this? [In] vain I labour.

World English Bible

I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

Darby Translation

Be it that I am wicked, why then do I labour in vain?

Douay-Rheims

But if so also I am wicked, why have I laboured in vain?

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

I shall be condemned; why then do I labour in vain?

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

But since I am ungodly, why have I not died?

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Ἐπειδὴ δέ εἰμι ἀσεβὴς, διὰ τί οὐκ ἀπέθανον;