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

13Yet You have concealed these things in Your heart; I know that this is within You: 14If I have sinned, You will take note of me, And will not acquit me of my guilt. If I am wicked, woe to me! But if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head. I am full of shame, and conscious of my misery. 16And should my head be high, You would hunt me like a lion; And You would show Your power against me again. 17You renew Your witnesses against me And increase Your anger toward me; Hardship after hardship is with me.

Job 10:15 word by word

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

• Ifאִם'im · ifH518
• I amרָשַׁעrâsha‛ · be wickedH7561
• woeאַלְלַי'alelay · woe!H480
• I amצָדֵקtsâdaq · to justifyH6663
• not liftנָשָׂאnâώâ' nâsâh · to lift: kindnessH5375
• upנָשָׂאnâώâ' nâsâh · to lift: kindnessH5375
• my headרֹאשׁrô'sh · headH7218
• fullשָׂבֵעַώâbêa‛ · satedH7649
• of shameקָלוֹןqâlôn · dishonorH7036
• consciousרָאֶהrâ'eh · to seeH7202

Cross-references for Job 10:15

• Job 10:7According to Your knowledge I am indeed not guilty, Yet there is no one to save me from Your hand.
• Job 9:29I am guilty, Why then should I struggle in vain?
• Job 27:7“May my enemy be as the wicked, And my opponent as the criminal.
• Psalms 9:17The wicked will return to Sheol, All the nations who forget God.
• Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked! It will go badly for him, For what he deserves will be done to him.
• Isaiah 6:5Then I said, “Woe to me, for I am ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I live among a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of armies.”
• Malachi 3:18So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him.
• Romans 2:8but to those who are self-serving and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, He will give wrath and indignation.
• Job 9:12If He were to snatch away, who could restrain Him? Who could say to Him, ‘What are You doing?’
• Isaiah 64:5You meet him who rejoices in doing righteousness, Who remembers You in Your ways. Behold, You were angry, for we sinned, We continued in our sins for a long time; Yet shall we be saved?
• Luke 17:10So you too, when you do all the things which were commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy slaves; we have done only that which we ought to have done.’”
• Job 21:6Even when I remember, I am disturbed, And horror takes hold of my flesh.
• Job 23:15Therefore, I would be terrified at His presence; When I consider this, I am frightened of Him.
• Exodus 3:7And the Lord said, “I have certainly seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their outcry because of their taskmasters, for I am aware of their sufferings.
• Psalms 25:18Look at my misery and my trouble, And forgive all my sins.
• Psalms 119:153Look at my affliction and rescue me, For I have not forgotten Your Law.

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