Job 10:15

Job 10:15 in other versions

• King James Version (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;
• New International Version (NIV)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.
• English Standard Version (ESV)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.
• New King James Version (NKJV)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!

Context of Job 10:15

13“Yet you concealed these thoughts in your heart; I know that this was your hidden plan: 14if I sin, you would notice, and would not acquit me of my iniquity. 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. 16If I am proud, you hunt me like a lion and again display your miraculous power against me. 17You produce new witnesses against me and multiply your anger toward me. Hardships assault me, wave after wave.

Job 10:15 word by word

אִם־רָשַׁ֡עְתִּי אַלְלַ֬י לִ֗י וְ֭צָדַקְתִּי לֹא־אֶשָּׂ֣א רֹאשִׁ֑י שְׂבַ֥ע קָ֝ל֗וֹן וּרְאֵ֥ה עָנְיִֽי׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• If I be wickedרָשַׁעrâsha‛ · be wickedH7561
• woeאַלְלַי'alelay · woe!H480
• I be righteousצָדֵקtsâdaq · to justifyH6663
• will I not lift upנָשָׂאnâώâ' nâsâh · to lift: kindnessH5375
• my headרֹאשׁrô'sh · headH7218
• fullשָׂבֵעַώâbêa‛ · satedH7649
• of confusionקָלוֹןqâlôn · dishonorH7036
• therefore seeרָאָהrâ'âh · to see: seeH7200
• therefore seeרָאֶהrâ'eh · to seeH7202
• thou mine afflictionעֳנִי‛ŏnîy · afflictionH6040

Cross-references for Job 10:15

• Job 10:7even though you know that I am not wicked and that there is no one who can rescue from your power?
• Job 9:29Since I will be found guilty, why should I struggle in vain?
• Job 27:7May my enemy be like the wicked and my opponent like the unjust.
• Psalms 9:17The wicked will return to Sheol — all the nations that forget God.
• Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked — it will go badly for them, for what they have done will be done to them.
• Isaiah 6:5Then I said: Woe is me for I am ruined because I am a man of unclean lips and live among a people of unclean lips, and because my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Armies.
• Malachi 3:18So you will again see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.
• Romans 2:8but wrath and anger to those who are self-seeking and disobey the truth while obeying unrighteousness.
• Job 9:12If he snatches something, who can stop him? Who can ask him, “What are you doing?”
• Isaiah 64:5You welcome the one who joyfully does what is right; they remember you in your ways. But we have sinned, and you were angry. How can we be saved if we remain in our sins?
• Luke 17:10In the same way, when you have done all that you were commanded, you should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we’ve only done our duty.’”
• Job 21:6When I think about it, I am terrified and my body trembles in horror.
• Job 23:15Therefore I am terrified in his presence; when I consider this, I am afraid of him.
• Exodus 3:7Then the Lord said, “I have observed the misery of my people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out because of their oppressors. I know about their sufferings,
• Psalms 25:18Consider my affliction and trouble, and forgive all my sins.
• Psalms 119:153Consider my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten your instruction.

Commentaries on Job 10:15

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15If I be wicked - I must meet with that punishment that is due to the workers of iniquity. If I be righteous - I am only in the state which my duty to my Creator requires me to be in; and I cannot therefore suppose that on this account I can deserve any thing by way of favor from the justice of my Maker. I am full of confusion - I am confounded at my state and circumstances. I know that thou art merciful, and dost not afflict willingly the children of men…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15If I be wicked, woe unto me - The meaning of this in this connection is, “I am full of perplexity and sorrow. Whether I am wicked or righteous, I find no comfort. Whatever is my character, my efforts to be happy are unavailing, and my mind is full of anguish. Woe follows if I have been guilty of sin; and if I am not a sinful man, I am equally incapable of enjoyment. In every way I am doomed to wretchedness.” And if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-22Verses 14-22 Job did not deny that as a sinner he deserved his sufferings; but he thought that justice was executed upon him with peculiar rigour. His gloom, unbelief, and hard thoughts of God, were as much to be ascribed to Satan's inward temptations, and his anguish of soul, under the sense of God's displeasure, as to his outward trials, and remaining depravity. Our Creator, become in Christ our Redeemer also, will not destroy the work of his hands in…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 14-1514-15. Job is perplexed because God "marks" every sin of his with such ceaseless rigor. Whether "wicked" (godless and a hypocrite) or "righteous" (comparatively sincere), God condemns and punishes alike.Read the comment

Topics related to Job 10:15

• Afflictions and Adversities
• God
• Humility
• Philosophy
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Comfort
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Commentaries on Job 10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings