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;
• 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!
• New Living Translation (NLT)If I am guilty, too bad for me; and even if I’m innocent, I can’t hold my head high, because I am filled with shame and misery.

Context of Job 10:15

13“But this is what you concealed in your heart, and I know that this was in your mind: 14If I sinned, you would be watching me and would not let my offense go unpunished. 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. 16If I hold my head high, you stalk me like a lion and again display your awesome power against me. 17You bring new witnesses against me and increase your anger toward me; your forces come against me wave upon 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 10:7though you know that I am not guilty and that no one can rescue me from your hand?
• Job 9:29Since I am already found guilty, why should I struggle in vain?
• Job 27:7“May my enemy be like the wicked, my adversary like the unjust!
• Psalms 9:17The wicked go down to the realm of the dead, all the nations that forget God.
• Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them! They will be paid back for what their hands have done.
• Isaiah 6:5“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
• Malachi 3:18And you will again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.
• Romans 2:8But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.
• Job 9:12If he snatches away, who can stop him? Who can say to him, ‘What are you doing?’
• Isaiah 64:5You come to the help of those who gladly do right, who remember your ways. But when we continued to sin against them, you were angry. How then can we be saved?
• Luke 17:10So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’ ”
• Job 21:6When I think about this, I am terrified; trembling seizes my body.
• Job 23:15That is why I am terrified before him; when I think of all this, I fear him.
• Exodus 3:7The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering.
• Psalms 25:18Look on my affliction and my distress and take away all my sins.
• Psalms 119:153Look on my suffering and deliver 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)

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• Grant
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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