Job 9:29

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I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.	[If] I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?	If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

If I be wicked^H7561, why then labour^H3021 I in vain^H1892?

Original Hebrew

אָנֹכִי אֶרְשָׁע לָמָּה־זֶּה הֶבֶל אִיגָע׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
אָנֹכִ֥י	'a.no.Khi	H595	HPp1cs	I
אֶרְשָׁ֑ע	'er.Sha'	H7561	HVqi1cs	I will be guilty
לָ/מָּה	la./mah-	H4100	HR/Ti	(to)/ why?
זֶּ֝֗ה	Zeh	H2088	HPdxms	this
הֶ֣בֶל	He.vel	H1892	HNcmsa	vanity
אִיגָֽע	'i.Ga'	H3021	HVqi1cs	will I labor

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

H1892 — הֶבֶל (hebel, heh'bel): or (rarely in the abs.) הֲבֵל; from הָבַל; emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb; [idiom] altogether, vain, vanity.
H3021 — יָגַע (yâgaʻ, yaw-gah'): a primitive root; properly, to gasp; hence, to be exhausted, to tire, to toil; faint, (make to) labour, (be) weary.
H7561 — רָשַׁע (râshaʻ, raw-shah'): a primitive root; to be (causatively, do or declare) wrong; by implication, to disturb, violate; condemn, make trouble, vex, be (commit, deal, depart, do) wicked(-ly, -ness).

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

H595 — אָנֹכִי (ʼânôkîy, aw-no-kee'): sometimes, aw-no'-kee; a primitive pronoun; I; I, me, [idiom] which.
H2088 — זֶה (zeh, zeh): a primitive word; the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that; he, [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, very, which. Compare זֹאת, זֹה, זוֹ, זוּ.
H4100 — מָה (mâh, maw): or מַה; or מָ; or מַ; also מֶה; a primitive particle; properly, 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 senses; how (long, oft, (-soever)), (no-) thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.

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