Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version If I am guilty—woe to me! Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head, for I am full of shame and drowned in my affliction. New Living Translation If I am guilty, too bad for me; and even if I’m innocent, I can’t hold my head high, because I am filled with shame and misery. English Standard Version If I am guilty, woe to me! If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look on my affliction. Berean Study Bible If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction. King James Bible If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction; New King James Version If I am wicked, woe to me; Even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head. I am full of disgrace; See my misery! New American Standard Bible ‘If I am wicked, woe to me! But if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head. I am full of shame, and conscious of my misery. NASB 1995 If I am wicked, woe to me! And if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head. I am sated with disgrace and conscious of my misery. NASB 1977 ‘If I am wicked, woe to me! And if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head. I am sated with disgrace and conscious of my misery. Amplified Bible ‘If I am wicked, woe to me [for judgment comes]! And if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head. For I am sated and filled with disgrace and the sight of my misery. Christian Standard Bible If I am wicked, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head. I am filled with shame and have drunk deeply of my affliction. Holman Christian Standard Bible If I am wicked, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head. I am filled with shame and aware of my affliction. American Standard Version If I be wicked, woe unto me; And if I be righteous, yet shall I not lift up my head; Being filled with ignominy, And looking upon mine affliction. Aramaic Bible in Plain English If I have sinned, woe to me! And if I am justified, I shall not lift my head. I am filled with disgrace and I have seen affliction! Brenton Septuagint Translation Or if I should be ungodly, woe is me: and if I should be righteous, I cannot lift myself up, for I am full of dishonour. Contemporary English Version Guilty or innocent, I am condemned and ashamed because of my troubles. 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. 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. International Standard Version "'Woe to me if I'm guilty! If I'm innocent, I cannot lift my head, because I am filled with disgrace. Look at my affliction! JPS Tanakh 1917 If I be wicked, woe unto me; And if I be righteous, yet shall I not lift up my head-- Being filled with ignominy And looking upon mine affliction. Literal Standard Version If I have done wickedly—woe to me, And righteously—I do not lift up my head, Full of shame—then see my affliction, 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! NET Bible If I am guilty, woe to me, and if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head; I am full of shame, and satiated with my affliction. 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. New Heart English Bible If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction. World English Bible If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction. Young's Literal Translation If I have done wickedly -- woe to me, And righteously -- I lift not up my head, Full of shame -- then see my affliction, Additional Translations ... Context Job's Plea to God…14If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity. 15If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction. 16Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.… Cross References Job 6:29 Reconsider; do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my righteousness is at stake. Job 9:15 For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy. Job 10:7 though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand? Psalm 83:16 Cover their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O LORD. Isaiah 3:11 Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done. Treasury of Scripture If I be wicked, woe to me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see you my affliction; If I be wicked Job 10:7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand. Job 9:29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? Job 27:7 Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous. righteous Job 9:12,15,20,21 Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou? … Isaiah 64:5,6 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved… Luke 17:10 So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do. I am full Job 21:6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh. Job 23:15 Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him. see Exodus 3:7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; Psalm 25:18 Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins. Psalm 119:153 RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.
Verse 15. - If I be wicked, woe unto me! If, on the whole, this record of my sins be such that I am pronounced guilty before God, then I accept my doom. Woe unto me! I must submit to suffer. And if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. If, on the contrary, it be admitted that I have not sinned so grievously as to be pronounced unrighteous, even then I will not beast; I will not exalt myself; I will not hold up my head as if I were sinless. I am full of confusion. This clause should not be separated from the last. The sense runs on: "I will not lift up my head (being, as I am), full of confusion," or "of shame," through consciousness of my own imperfections (see the Revised Version). Therefore see thou mine affliction; rather, and seeing my afflictions. The sense given in the Authorized Version is maintained by Rosenmuller, De Wette, Stanley Leathes, and Merx, and defended by Canon Cook; but opposed by Schultens, Professor Lee, and our Revisers. If we accept the views of these last, the whole passage will run thus: "If I be [pronounced] wicked, woe unto reel but if righteous, yet will I not lift up my head, being [as I am] full of confusion, and seeing my afflictions." Job still views his afflictions as signs of God's disfavour, and therefore proofs of his sinfulness. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Ifאִם־ (’im-) Conjunction Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not I am guilty, רָשַׁ֡עְתִּי (rā·ša‘·tî) Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular Strong's 7561: To be, wrong, to disturb, violate woe אַלְלַ֬י (’al·lay) Interjection Strong's 480: Alas! woe! to me! לִ֗י (lî) Preposition | first person common singular Strong's Hebrew And even if I am righteous, וְ֭צָדַקְתִּי (wə·ṣā·ḏaq·tî) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular Strong's 6663: To be just or righteous I cannot לֹא־ (lō-) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no lift אֶשָּׂ֣א (’eś·śā) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take my head. רֹאשִׁ֑י (rō·šî) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 7218: The head [I am] full שְׂבַ֥ע (śə·ḇa‘) Adjective - masculine singular construct Strong's 7646: To be sated, satisfied or surfeited of shame קָ֝ל֗וֹן (qā·lō·wn) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 7036: Disgrace, the pudenda and aware of וּרְאֵ֥ה (ū·rə·’êh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 7200: To see my affliction. עָנְיִֽי׃ (‘ā·nə·yî) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 6040: Affliction, poverty Jump to Previous Affliction Beholding Confusion Conscious Curse Dare Disgrace Evil-Doer Filled Full Guilty Head Ignominy Innocent Lift Misery Overcome Righteous Sated Shame Trouble Upright Wicked WoeJump to Next Affliction Beholding Confusion Conscious Curse Dare Disgrace Evil-Doer Filled Full Guilty Head Ignominy Innocent Lift Misery Overcome Righteous Sated Shame Trouble Upright Wicked WoeLinks Job 10:15 NIVJob 10:15 NLT Job 10:15 ESV Job 10:15 NASB Job 10:15 KJV Job 10:15 BibleApps.com Job 10:15 Biblia Paralela Job 10:15 Chinese Bible Job 10:15 French Bible Job 10:15 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Job 10:15 If I am wicked woe to me (Jb) |
   
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