Job 10 · Verse 15

Job 10:15

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;
Job 10:15, King James Version

Job 10:15 in other translations

BSBIf I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.
WEBIf I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.
ASVIf 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.
YLTIf I have done wickedly--woe to me, And righteously--I lift not up my head, Full of shame--then see my affliction,
DARBYIf I were wicked, woe unto me! and righteous, I will not lift up my head, being so full of shame, and beholding mine affliction; —
BBEThat, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble.
WebsterIf 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;

What does Job 10:15 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 10:14-15

14-15. 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.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 15 If 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; I know I have not wickedly departed from thee; and yet I am treated by thee as if I were an apostate from every good. I am therefore full of confusion. See thou to my affliction; and bring me out of it in such a way as shall at once prove my innocence, the righteousness of thy ways, and the mercy of thy nature.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 10:14-22

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…

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Job 10:15 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אִם\־'im-ifH518
רָשַׁ֡עְתִּיra.Sha'.tiI am guiltyH7561
אַלְלַ֬י'a.Laiwoe!H480
לִ֗יLito me
וְ֭צָדַקְתִּיVe.tza.dak.tiand I have been righteousH6663
לֹא\־lo'-notH3808
אֶשָּׂ֣א'e.Sa'I will lift upH5375
רֹאשִׁ֑יro.Shihead myH7218
שְׂבַ֥עse.Va'surfeited ofH7649
קָ֝ל֗וֹןka.LonshameH7036
וּרְאֵ֥הu.re.'Ehand seeH7202
עָנְיִֽי\׃'a.ne.Yiaffliction myH6040

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 10:15

  • Isaiah 3:11

    Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

  • 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.

  • Job 10:7

    Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Psalms 25:18

    Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.

  • Job 27:7

    Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.

  • 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;

  • Lamentations 5:1-22

    Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. …

  • 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.

  • 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;

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
If I be wicked.
7; 9:29; 27:7; Ps 9:17; Isa 3:11; 6:5; Mal 3:18; Ro 2:8,9
righteous.
9:12,15,20,21; Isa 64:5,6; Lu 17:10
I am full.
21:6; 23:15
see.
Ex 3:7; Ps 25:18; 119:153; La 1:20; 5:1-22

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 10:14

    If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

  • Job 10:15

    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;

  • Job 10:16

    For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.

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Job 10:15 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Si fuere malo, ¡ay de mí! y si fuere justo, no levantaré mi cabeza, estando harto de deshonra, y de verme afligido.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Si j’ai agi méchamment, malheur à moi! Si j’ai marché justement, je ne lèverai pas ma tête, rassasié que je suis de mépris et voyant ma misère.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Wenn ich schuldig wäre, wehe mir! und wäre ich gerecht, so dürfte ich mein Haupt nicht erheben, gesättigt von Schande und mein Elend schauend.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et si impius fuero, væ mihi est; et si justus, non levabo caput, saturatus afflictione et miseria.