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

13But in your heart you hid these things. I know this is what you did. 14“ ‘If I sin, you watch me and will not free me from my guilt. How terrible it will be for me if I’m guilty! Even if I’m righteous, I dare not lift up my head. I am filled with disgrace while I look on my misery. 16Like a proud, ferocious lion you hunt me down. You keep working your miracles against me. 17You keep finding new witnesses against me. You keep increasing your anger toward me. You keep bringing new armies against me.

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 10:7You know I’m not guilty, but there is no one to rescue me from your hands.
• Job 9:29I’ve already been found guilty. Why should I work so hard for nothing?
• Job 27:7“Let my enemy be ⌞treated⌟ like wicked people. Let anyone who attacks me be ⌞treated⌟ like unrighteous people.
• Psalms 9:17Wicked people, all the nations who forget God, will return to the grave.
• Isaiah 3:11How horrible it will be for the wicked! Disaster will strike them. What they have done will be done to them.
• Isaiah 6:5So I said, “Oh, no! I’m doomed. Every word that passes through my lips is sinful. I live among people with sinful lips. I have seen the king, the Lord of Armies!”
• Malachi 3:18Then you will again see the difference between righteous people and wicked people, between the one who serves God and the one who doesn’t serve him.
• Romans 2:8anger and fury on those who, in selfish pride, refuse to believe the truth and who follow what is wrong.
• Job 9:12He takes something away, ⌞but⌟ who can stop him? Who is going to ask him, ‘What are you doing?’
• Isaiah 64:5You greeted the one who gladly does right and remembers your ways. You showed your anger, because we’ve sinned. We’ve continued to sin for a long time. Can we still be saved?
• Luke 17:10That’s the way it is with you. When you’ve done everything you’re ordered to do, say, ‘We’re worthless servants. We’ve only done our duty.’ ”
• Job 21:6When I remember it, I’m terrified, and shuddering seizes my body.
• Job 23:15That is why I’m terrified of him. When I think of it, I’m afraid of him.
• Exodus 3:7The Lord said, “I have seen the misery of my people in Egypt, and I have heard them crying out because of the slave drivers. I know how much they’re suffering.
• Psalms 25:18Look at my misery and suffering, and forgive all my sins.
• Psalms 119:153Look at my misery, and rescue me, because I have never forgotten your teachings.

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
• Darkness
• Grant
• Confusion

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