John Trapp on Job 9:29

Verſe 29. If I be wicked] Heb. I am wicked, ſc. in your thoughts, and you have ſo earneſtly and effectually affirmed it, and confirmed it, that I am almoſt ready to ſay as you ſay, I am wicked. Plato brings in Socrates in his apology to the Judges, thus beſpeaking them, My Lords, I know not how you have been affected with mine accuſers eloquence whiles you heard them ſpeak: for mine own part, I aſſure you that I whom it toucheth moſt, was almoſt drawn to believe that all they ſaid, though againſt my ſelf, was true, when they ſcarcely uttered one word of truth. The Chaldee paraphraſe reads it, I ſhall be culpable, or, I ſhall be condemned.

Why then labour I in vain?] Or, for nothing, as the Chaldee hath it. See the like Pſalm 73.13, 14. Why put I my ſelf to ſo much fruitleſſe pains, either in praying to God, or apologiſing to you my friends, ſith by God I am ſtill afflicted, and by you reputed a wicked perſon? Jobs hope was low, his endeavour was therefore little. Si nihil ſperarem, nihil orarem, ſaith one. Let us pray on: God ſometimes defers to come, till men have even left looking for him, till he ſcarce findeth ſaith upon earth, Luke 18.8.