Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version If I hold my head high, you stalk me like a lion and again display your awesome power against me. New Living Translation And if I hold my head high, you hunt me like a lion and display your awesome power against me. English Standard Version And were my head lifted up, you would hunt me like a lion and again work wonders against me. Berean Standard Bible Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me. King James Bible For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me. New King James Version If my head is exalted, You hunt me like a fierce lion, And again You show Yourself awesome against me. New American Standard Bible ‘And should my head be high, You would hunt me like a lion; And You would show Your power against me again. NASB 1995 Should my head be lifted up, You would hunt me like a lion; And again You would show Your power against me. NASB 1977 ‘And should my head be lifted up, Thou wouldst hunt me like a lion; And again Thou wouldst show Thy power against me. Legacy Standard Bible Should my head be set on high, You would hunt me like a lion; And again You would show Your wonders against me. Amplified Bible ‘Should I lift my head up, You would hunt me like a lion; And again You would show Your marvelous power against me. Christian Standard Bible If I am proud, you hunt me like a lion and again display your miraculous power against me. Holman Christian Standard Bible If I am proud, You hunt me like a lion and again display Your miraculous power against me. American Standard Version And if my head exalt itself, thou huntest me as a lion; And again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me. Contemporary English Version No matter how hard I try, you keep hunting me down like a powerful lion. English Revised Version And if my head exalt itself, thou huntest me as a lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvelous upon me. GOD'S WORD® Translation Like a proud, ferocious lion you hunt me down. You keep working your miracles against me. Good News Translation If I have any success at all, you hunt me down like a lion; to hurt me you even work miracles. International Standard Version But if I do lift up my head, you will hunt me like a lion! You will perform miracles in order to fight against me. Majority Standard Bible Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me. NET Bible If I lift myself up, you hunt me as a fierce lion, and again you display your power against me. New Heart English Bible And if I lift myself up, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me. Webster's Bible Translation For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou showest thyself wonderful upon me. World English Bible If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionAnd it rises—as a lion You hunt me. And You turn back—You show Yourself wonderful in me. Young's Literal Translation And it riseth -- as a lion Thou huntest me. And Thou turnest back -- Thou shewest Thyself wonderful in me. Smith's Literal Translation And shall it be lifted up? Thou wilt hunt me as the lion, and thou wilt turn back, thou wilt show thyself wonderful upon me. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleAnd for pride thou wilt take me as a lioness, and returning thou tormentest me wonderfully. Catholic Public Domain Version And because of pride, you will seize me like a lioness, and having returned, you torment me to an extraordinary degree. New American Bible Should it lift up, you hunt me like a lion: repeatedly you show your wondrous power against me, New Revised Standard Version Bold as a lion you hunt me; you repeat your exploits against me. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleAnd if I exalt myself, thou dost hunt me like a lion, and then thou dost turn and show thyself gigantic over me. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And if I will rise up as a lion, you will hunt me and turn like a giant against me OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917And if it exalt itself, Thou huntest me as a lion; And again Thou showest Thyself marvellous upon me. Brenton Septuagint Translation For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again thou hast changed and art terribly destroying me; Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Job's Plea to God…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. 17You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.… Cross References Psalm 139:7-10 Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence? / If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there. / If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea, ... Lamentations 3:1-18 I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath. / He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light. / Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long. ... Isaiah 38:13 I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me. Psalm 88:15-18 From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair. / Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me. / All day long they engulf me like water; they enclose me on every side. ... Jeremiah 20:7-9 You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me. / For whenever I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and destruction. For the word of the LORD has become to me a reproach and derision all day long. / If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail. Psalm 73:14 For I am afflicted all day long and punished every morning. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 We are hard pressed on all sides, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; / persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed. Psalm 102:3-11 For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers. / My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread. / Through my loud groaning my skin hangs on my bones. ... Isaiah 53:3-4 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. / Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. 1 Peter 4:12-13 Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial that has come upon you, as though something strange were happening to you. / But rejoice that you share in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed at the revelation of His glory. Psalm 22:1-2 For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Doe of the Dawn.” A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning? / I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest. 2 Corinthians 1:8-9 We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the hardships we encountered in the province of Asia. We were under a burden far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. / Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead. Psalm 31:9-10 Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes fail from sorrow, my soul and body as well. / For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away. Matthew 26:38-39 Then He said to them, “My soul is consumed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with Me.” / Going a little farther, He fell facedown and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will.” Psalm 6:6-7 I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears. / My eyes fail from grief; they grow dim because of all my foes. Treasury of Scripture For it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion: and again you show yourself marvelous on me. Thou huntest Isaiah 38:13 I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. Lamentations 3:10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places. Hosea 13:7,8 Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them: … marvellous Numbers 16:29,30 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hath not sent me… Deuteronomy 28:59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. Jump to Previous Awesome Cause Display Exalt Fierce Head Held High Hunt Increaseth Itself Lion Marvellous Power Powerful Pride Shewest Show Showest Stalk Thyself Wonderful Wonders WorkJump to Next Awesome Cause Display Exalt Fierce Head Held High Hunt Increaseth Itself Lion Marvellous Power Powerful Pride Shewest Show Showest Stalk Thyself Wonderful Wonders WorkJob 10 1. Job, taking liberty of complaint, expostulates with God about his afflictions18. He complains of life, and craves a little ease before death If I hold my head high This phrase reflects Job's struggle with pride and dignity amidst suffering. In the Hebrew context, "holding one's head high" signifies maintaining dignity and self-respect. Job feels that even when he attempts to maintain his dignity, he is met with further adversity. This reflects the broader theme of the Book of Job, where human pride is often challenged by divine sovereignty. The phrase invites readers to consider the balance between human dignity and humility before God. You hunt me like a lion and again display Your power against me Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Should I hold my head high,וְ֭יִגְאֶה (wə·yiḡ·’eh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 1342: To mount up, to rise, be majestic You would hunt me תְּצוּדֵ֑נִי (tə·ṣū·ḏê·nî) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | first person common singular Strong's 6679: To lie alongside, to catch an animal, to victual like a lion, כַּשַּׁ֣חַל (kaš·ša·ḥal) Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 7826: A lion and again וְ֝תָשֹׁ֗ב (wə·ṯā·šōḇ) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect Jussive - second person masculine singular Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again display Your power תִּתְפַּלָּא־ (tiṯ·pal·lā-) Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 6381: To separate, distinguish, to be, great, difficult, wonderful against me. בִֽי׃ (ḇî) Preposition | first person common singular Strong's Hebrew Links Job 10:16 NIVJob 10:16 NLT Job 10:16 ESV Job 10:16 NASB Job 10:16 KJV Job 10:16 BibleApps.com Job 10:16 Biblia Paralela Job 10:16 Chinese Bible Job 10:16 French Bible Job 10:16 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Job 10:16 If my head is held high you (Jb) |