Job 10:15 “If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift m…”

Job 10:15

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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;

World English Bible

If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious 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.

Geneva Bible 1599

If I haue done wickedly, wo vnto me: if I haue done righteously, I will not lift vp mine head, being full of confusion, because I see mine affliction.

Darby Translation

If I were wicked, woe unto me! and righteous, I will not lift up my head, being [so] full of shame, and beholding mine 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,

Bible in Basic English

That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble.

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Cross references

“If I be wicked”

Isaiah 3:11 Job 10:7 Isaiah 6:5 Malachi 3:18 Job 9:29 Job 27:7

Isaiah 3:11 · BSB

Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.

Job 10:7 · BSB

though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?

Isaiah 6:5 · BSB

Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”

Malachi 3:18 · BSB

So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”

Job 9:29 · BSB

Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?

Job 27:7 · BSB

May my enemy be like the wicked and my opponent like the unjust.

“righteous”

Job 9:15 Job 9:12 Luke 17:10 Job 9:20 Job 9:21 Isaiah 64:5

Job 9:15 · BSB

For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.

Job 9:12 · BSB

If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ‘What are You doing?’

Luke 17:10 · BSB

So you also, when you have done everything commanded of you, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’”

Job 9:20 · BSB

Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.

Job 9:21 · BSB

Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.

Isaiah 64:5 · BSB

You welcome those who gladly do right, who remember Your ways. Surely You were angry, for we sinned. How can we be saved if we remain in our sins?

“I am full”

Job 21:6 Job 23:15

Job 21:6 · BSB

When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.

Job 23:15 · BSB

Therefore I am terrified in His presence; when I consider this, I fear Him.

“see”

Psalm 25:18 Exodus 3:7 Psalm 119:153 Lamentations 1:20 Lamentations 5:1–22

Psalm 25:18 · BSB

Consider my affliction and trouble, and take away all my sins.

Exodus 3:7 · BSB

The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.

Psalm 119:153 · BSB

Look upon my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten Your law.

Lamentations 1:20 · BSB

See, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am churning within; my heart is pounding within me, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is death.

Lamentations 5:1–22 · BSB

Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

14If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.

16Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.

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