Job 10:15
13 Yet You concealed these things in Your heart, and I know that this was in Your mind:
14 If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.
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.
16 Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.
17 You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- 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.
- KJV
- 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;
- WEB
- 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.
- ASV
- 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.
- DARBY
- 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;
- BLB
- If I am wicked, woe to me! And [if] I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head; [I am] full of shame, and seeing my affliction.
- ÅB
- var jeg skyldig, da ve meg, men var jeg uskyldig, skulle jeg dog ikke kunne løfte mitt hode, mett av skam og med min elendighet for øye;
- OTB
- Hvis jeg er ond, ve meg!
Men hvis jeg er rettferdig, tør jeg ikke løfte hodet.
Jeg er full av skam, og klar over min elendighet. - B1930
- var jeg skyldig, da ve mig, men var jeg uskyldig, skulde jeg dog ikke kunne løfte mitt hode, mett av skam og med min elendighet for øie;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.
Read in contextJob 9:15
For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.
Read in contextJob 9:20–21
Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.
Read in contextJob 10:7
though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
Read in contextMalachi 3:18
So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”
Read in contextIsaiah 6:5
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.”
Read in contextPsalms 25:18
Consider my affliction and trouble, and take away all my sins.
Read in contextJob 27:7
May my enemy be like the wicked and my opponent like the unjust.
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