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Job 10:15

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— ‘If I am wicked, woe to me! And if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head. [I am] sated with disgrace and conscious of my misery.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— 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 Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet shall I not lift up my head; being filled with ignominy and looking upon mine affliction.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— If I be wicked, woe unto me; And if I be righteous, yet shall I not lift up my head; Being filled with ignominy, And looking upon mine affliction.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— If I be wicked, woe to me; and [if] I be righteous, [yet] will I not lift up my head. [I am] full of confusion; therefore see thou my affliction;
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— If I were wicked, woe unto me! and righteous, I will not lift up my head, being [so] full of shame, and beholding mine affliction;—
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— If I have been lawless, alas for me! Or, if I am righteous, I will not lift up my head, Surfeited with shame, look thou then on my humiliation.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— If I have done wickedly—woe to me, And righteously—I lift not up my head, Full of shame—then see my affliction,
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— And if I be wicked, woe unto me: and if just, I shall not lift up my head, being filled with affliction and misery.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— If I haue done wickedly, wo vnto me: if I haue done righteously, I will not lift vp mine head, being full of confusion, because I see mine affliction.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— If I be wicked, woe vnto me; and [if] I be righteous, [yet] will I not lift vp my head: I am full of confusion, therefore see thou mine affliction:
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— If I be wicked, woe is me! and if I be righteous, still I cannot lift up my head. I have enough of reproach; I have seen my affliction.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— Or if I should be ungodly, woe is me: and if I should be righteous, I cannot lift myself up, for I am full of dishonour.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— 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;

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
If x518
(0518) Complement
אִם
'im
{eem}
A primitive particle; used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogitive, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also Oh that!, when; hence as a negative, not.
I be wicked, 7561
{7561} Prime
רָשַׁע
rasha`
{raw-shah'}
A primitive root; to be (causatively do or declare) wrong; by implication to disturb, violate.
z8804
<8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Perfect (See H8816)
Count - 12562
woe 480
{0480} Prime
אַלְלַי
'al@lay
{al-le-lah'ee}
By reduplication from H0421; alas!.
unto me; and [if] I be righteous, 6663
{6663} Prime
צָדַק
tsadaq
{tsaw-dak'}
A primitive root; to be (causatively make) right (in a moral or forensic sense).
z8804
<8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Perfect (See H8816)
Count - 12562
[yet] will I not x3808
(3808) Complement
לֹא
lo'
{lo}
lo; a primitive particle; not (the simple or abstract negation); by implication no; often used with other particles.
lift up 5375
{5375} Prime
נָשָׂא
nasa'
{naw-saw'}
A primitive root; to lift, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, absolutely and relatively.
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
my head. 7218
{7218} Prime
רֹאשׁ
ro'sh
{roshe}
From an unused root apparently meaning to shake; the head (as most easily shaken), whether literally or figuratively (in many applications, of place, time, rank, etc.).
[I am] full 7649
{7649} Prime
שָׂבֵעַ
sabea`
{saw-bay'-ah}
From H7646; satiated (in a pleasant or disagreeable sense).
of confusion; 7036
{7036} Prime
קָלוֹן
qalown
{kaw-lone'}
From H7034; disgrace; (by implication) the pudenda.
therefore see 7200
{7200} Prime
רָאָה
ra'ah
{raw-aw'}
A primitive root; to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitively, intransitively and causatively).
z8798
<8798> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperative (See H8810)
Count - 2847
y7202
[7202] Standard
רָאֶה
ra'eh
{raw-eh'}
From H7200; seeing, that is, experiencing.
z8676
<8676> Grammar
Qere Reading

Where the translators of the Authorised Version followed the kethiv reading rather than the qere.
thou mine affliction; 6040
{6040} Prime
עֳנִי
`oniy
{on-ee'}
From H6031; depression, that is, misery.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

See commentary on Job 10:14-15.


Job 10:15

_ _ lift up my head — in conscious innocence (Psalms 3:3).

_ _ see thou — rather, “and seeing I see (I too well see) mine affliction,” (which seems to prove me guilty) [Umbreit].

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Job 10:14-22.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 10:15

Wicked — An hypocrite, as my friends esteem me. Righteous — An upright man; so whether good or bad, all comes to one. Yet — Yet I have no comfort, or hopes of any good. Confusion — I am confounded within myself, not knowing what to say or do. Let my extremity move thee to pity, and help me.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

Job 10:15

If I be wicked, woe unto me; and [if] I be righteous, [yet] will I not (p) lift up my head. [I am] full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;

(p) I will always walk in fear and humility, knowing that no one is just before you.

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
If I be wicked:

Job 10:7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and [there is] none that can deliver out of thine hand.
Job 9:29 [If] I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
Job 27:7 Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
Psalms 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, [and] all the nations that forget God.
Isaiah 3:11 Woe unto the wicked! [it shall be] ill [with him]: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
Isaiah 6:5 Then said I, Woe [is] me! for I am undone; because I [am] a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
Malachi 3:18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Romans 2:8-9 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, ... Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;

righteous:

Job 9:12 Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?
Job 9:15 Whom, though I were righteous, [yet] would I not answer, [but] I would make supplication to my judge.
Job 9:20-21 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: [if I say], I [am] perfect, it shall also prove me perverse. ... [Though] I [were] perfect, [yet] would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
Isaiah 64:5-6 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, [those that] remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved. ... But we are all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Luke 17:10 So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.

I am full:

Job 21:6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
Job 23:15 Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.

see:

Exodus 3:7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which [are] in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
Psalms 25:18 Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
Psalms 119:153 RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.
Lamentations 1:20 Behold, O LORD; for I [am] in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home [there is] as death.
Lamentations 5:1-22 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. ... But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
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Chain-Reference Bible SearchCross References with Concordance

Ex 3:7. Jb 9:12, 15, 20, 29; 10:7; 21:6; 23:15; 27:7. Ps 9:17; 25:18; 119:153. Is 3:11; 6:5; 64:5. Lm 1:20; 5:1. Mal 3:18. Lk 17:10. Ro 2:8.

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