Job 10:15
Good News Translation
As soon as I sin, I'm in trouble with you, but when I do right, I get no credit. I am miserable and covered with shame.

New Revised Standard Version
If I am wicked, woe to me! If I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look upon my affliction.

Contemporary English Version
Guilty or innocent, I am condemned and ashamed because of my troubles.

New American Bible
If I should be wicked, alas for me! even if righteous, I dare not hold up my head, sated with shame, drenched in affliction!

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if I be wicked, woe unto me: and if just, I shall not lift up my head, being filled with affliction and misery.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And if I be wicked, woe unto me: and if just, I shall not lift up my head, being filled with affliction and misery.

If I be wicked

Job 10:7 And shouldst know that I have done no wicked thing, whereas there is no man that can deliver out of thy hand?

Job 9:29 But if so also I am wicked, why have I laboured in vain?

Job 27:7 Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and my adversary as the wicked one.

Psalm 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, all the nations that forget God.

Isaiah 3:11 Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

Isaiah 6:5 And I said: Woe is me, because I have held my peace; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people that hath unclean lips, and I have seen with my eyes the King the Lord of hosts.

Malachi 3:18 And you shall return, and shall see the difference between the just and the wicked: and between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.

Romans 2:8,9 But to them that are contentious and who obey not the truth but give credit to iniquity, wrath and indignation. . . .

righteous

Job 9:12,15,20,21 If he examine on a sudden, who shall answer him? or who can say: Why dost thou so? . . .

Isaiah 64:5,6 Thou hast met him that rejoiceth, and doth justice: in thy ways they shall remember thee: behold thou art angry, and we have sinned: in them we have been always, and we shall be saved. . . .

Luke 17:10 I think not. So you also, when you shall have done all these things that are commanded you, say: We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which we ought to do.

I am full

Job 21:6 As for me, when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.

Job 23:15 And therefore I am troubled at his presence, and when I consider him, I am made pensive with fear.

see

Exodus 3:7 And the Lord said to him: I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of the rigour of them that are over the works;

Psalm 25:18 See my abjection and my labour; and forgive me all my sins.

Psalm 119:153 See my humiliation and deliver me for I have not forgotten thy law.

Lamentations 1:20 Res. Behold, O Lord, for I am in distress, my bowels are troubled: my heart is turned within me, for I am full of bitterness: abroad the sword destroyeth and at home there is death alike.

Lamentations 5:1 Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.

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Context
Job's Plea to God
14If I have sinned, and thou hast spared me for an hour: why dost thou not suffer me to be clean from my iniquity? 15And if I be wicked, woe unto me: and if just, I shall not lift up my head, being filled with affliction and misery.16And for pride thou wilt take me as a lioness, and returning, thou tormentest me wonderfully.…
Cross References
Job 6:29
Answer, I beseech you, without contention: and speaking that which is just, judge ye.

Job 9:15
I, who although I should have any just thing, would not answer, but would make supplication to my judge.

Job 10:7
And shouldst know that I have done no wicked thing, whereas there is no man that can deliver out of thy hand?

Psalm 83:16
Fill their faces with shame; and they shall seek thy name, O Lord.

Isaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

Job 10:14
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