Job 10:16
Strong's Lexicon
Should I hold my head high,
וְ֭יִגְאֶה (wə·yiḡ·’eh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1342: 1) to rise up, grow up, be exalted in triumph 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to rise up 1a2) to grow up 1a3) to be lifted up, be raised up, be exalted

You would hunt me
תְּצוּדֵ֑נִי (tə·ṣū·ḏê·nî)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6679: 1) to hunt 1a) (Qal) to hunt 1b) (Poel) to hunt, hunt eagerly or keenly 1c) (Hithpael) take provision

like a lion,
כַּשַּׁ֣חַל (kaš·ša·ḥal)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7826: 1) lion 1a) of Jehovah, wicked men (fig)

and again
וְ֝תָשֹׁ֗ב (wə·ṯā·šōḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect Jussive - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7725: 1) to return, turn back 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to turn back, return 1a1a) to turn back 1a1b) to return, come or go back 1a1c) to return unto, go back, come back 1a1d) of dying 1a1e) of human relations (fig) 1a1f) of spiritual relations (fig) 1a1f1) to turn back (from God), apostatise 1a1f2) to turn away (of God) 1a1f3) to turn back (to God), repent 1a1f4) turn back (from evil) 1a1g) of inanimate things 1a1h) in repetition 1b) (Polel) 1b1) to bring back 1b2) to restore, refresh, repair (fig) 1b3) to lead away (enticingly) 1b4) to show turning, apostatise 1c) (Pual) restored (participle) 1d) (Hiphil) to cause to return, bring back 1d1) to bring back, allow to return, put back, draw back, give back, restore, relinquish, give in payment 1d2) to bring back, refresh, restore 1d3) to bring back, report to, answer 1d4) to bring back, make requital, pay (as recompense) 1d5) to turn back or backward, repel, defeat, repulse, hinder, reject, refuse 1d6) to turn away (face), turn toward 1d7) to turn against 1d8) to bring back to mind 1d9) to show a turning away 1d10) to reverse, revoke 1e) (Hophal) to be returned, be restored, be brought back 1f) (Pulal) brought back

display Your power
תִּתְפַּלָּא־ (tiṯ·pal·lā-)
Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6381: 1) to be marvellous, be wonderful, be surpassing, be extraordinary, separate by distinguishing action 1a) (Niphal) 1a1) to be beyond one's power, be difficult to do 1a2) to be difficult to understand 1a3) to be wonderful, be extraordinary 1a3a) marvellous (participle) 1b) (Piel) to separate (an offering) 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to do extraordinary or hard or difficult thing 1c2) to make wonderful, do wondrously 1d) (Hithpael) to show oneself wonderful or marvellous

against me.
בִֽי׃ (ḇî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew :

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.

Young's Literal Translation
And it riseth—as a lion Thou huntest me. And Thou turnest back—Thou shewest Thyself wonderful in me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If I am proud,  You hunt  me like  a lion and again display Your miraculous power against  me. 

New American Standard Bible
Should [my head] be lifted up, You would hunt me like a lion; And again You would show 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.
Parallel Verses
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.

New American Standard Bible
Should my head be lifted up, You would hunt me like a lion; And again You would show 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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If I am proud, You hunt me like a lion and again display Your miraculous power against me.

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.

NET Bible
If I lift myself up, you hunt me as a fierce lion, and again you display your 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.

English Revised Version
And if my head exalt itself, thou huntest me as a lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvelous upon me.

Young's Literal Translation
And it riseth -- as a lion Thou huntest me. And Thou turnest back -- Thou shewest Thyself wonderful in me.
















Cross References
Job 5:9
Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:

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
Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them:

Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

Job 10:15
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;

Job 10:14
If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

Job 10:13
And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.

Job 10:17
Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

Job 10:18
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

Job 10:19
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
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