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 these things You have hid in Your heart, for I know that this is with You. 14If I sinned, You would watch me, and not acquit me of my iniquity. If I am guilty, woe to me! Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and conscious of my affliction. 16If my head is held high, You hunt me like a lion, and again work wonders against me. 17You renew Your witnesses against me, and increase Your anger toward me, change and warfare are with 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 10:7though You know that I am not guilty, yet there is no one to deliver from Your hand?
• Job 9:29If I am condemned— why should I struggle in vain?
• Job 27:7“May my enemy be like the wicked my enemy like the unrighteous.
• Psalms 9:17Adonai is known for executing judgment. The wicked one is trapped in the work of his own hands. Selah
• Isaiah 3:11Oy , the wicked! It will be bad for him, for the dealing of his hands will be done to him.
• Isaiah 6:5Then I said: “Oy to me! For I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I am dwelling among a people of unclean lips. For my eyes have seen the King, Adonai-Tzva’ot!”
• Malachi 3:18Then you will return and 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-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—wrath and fury.
• Job 9:12If He were to snatch away, who could restrain Him? Who could say to Him, ‘What are You doing?’
• Isaiah 64:5For all of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a filthy garment, and all of us wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away, like the wind.
• Luke 17:10So you too, when you’ve done everything you are commanded, say, ‘We are unworthy slaves. We have done only what we were supposed to do.’”
• Job 21:6When I think of it, I am terrified and my flesh shudders.
• Job 23:15That is why I am terrified at His presence; when I consider this, I fear Him.
• Exodus 3:7Then Adonai said, “I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their slave masters, for I know their pains.
• Psalms 25:18See my affliction and my suffering, and take away all my sins.
• Psalms 119:153See my affliction and rescue me, for I do not forget Your Torah.

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