Job 9:29

²⁹ Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?

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Job 10:6–8

⁶ that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin— ⁷ though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand? ⁸ Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?

Job 9:14–16

¹⁴ How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him? ¹⁵ For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy. ¹⁶ If I summoned Him and He answered me, I do not believe He would listen to my voice.

Job 35:2–4

² “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’ ³ For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’ ⁴ I will reply to you and to your friends as well.

Job 34:5–7

⁵ For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice. ⁶ Would I lie about my case? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’ ⁷ What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?

Galatians 4:10–12

¹⁰ You are observing special days and months and seasons and years! ¹¹ I fear for you, that my efforts for you may have been in vain. ¹² I beg you, brothers, become like me, for I became like you. You have done me no wrong.

Job 9:20–22

²⁰ Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty. ²¹ Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life. ²² It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’

Psalms 73:12–14

¹² Behold, these are the wicked— always carefree as they increase their wealth. ¹³ Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands. ¹⁴ For I am afflicted all day long and punished every morning.

2 Esdras 16:44–46

⁴⁴ those who marry, as those who will have no children, and those who don’t marry, as the widowed. (WEB) ⁴⁵ Because of this, those who labor, labor in vain; (WEB) ⁴⁶ for foreigners will reap their fruits, plunder their goods, overthrow their houses, and take their children captive,… (WEB)

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