Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

‘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

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;

Holman Bible

If I am wicked, woe to me!
And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head.
I am filled with shame
and aware of my affliction.

International Standard Version

""Woe to me if I'm guilty! If I'm innocent, I cannot lift my head, because I am filled with disgrace. Look at my affliction!

A Conservative Version

If I be wicked, woe to me. And if I be righteous, yet I shall not lift up my head, being filled with shame, and looking upon my affliction.

American Standard Version

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.

Amplified


‘If I am wicked, woe to me [for judgment comes]!
And if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head.
For I am sated and filled with disgrace and the sight of my misery.

Bible in Basic English

That, 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.

Darby Translation

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; --

Julia Smith Translation

If I did evil, wo to me; and was I just, I shall not lift up my head, being filled with dishonor: and see thou mine affliction;

King James 2000

If I am wicked, woe unto me; and if I am righteous, yet can I not lift up my head. I am full of disgrace; therefore see my affliction;

Lexham Expanded Bible

If I am guilty, woe to me! But if I am righteous, I dare not lift my head; [I am] filled [with] shame, and [just] look [at] my misery!

Modern King James verseion

If I am wicked, woe to me; and if I am righteous, I will not lift up my head, being filled with shame, and looking on my affliction.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

If I have done wickedly, woe is me therefore. If I have done righteously, yet dare I not lift up my head; so full am I of confusion, and see mine own misery.

NET Bible

If I am guilty, woe to me, and if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head; I am full of shame, and satiated with my affliction.

New Heart English Bible

If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

The Emphasized Bible

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.

Webster

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;

World English Bible

If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

Youngs Literal Translation

If I have done wickedly -- woe to me, And righteously -- I lift not up my head, Full of shame -- then see my affliction,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
If I be wicked
רשׁע 
Rasha` 
Usage: 34

woe
אללי 
'al@lay 
woe
Usage: 2

unto me and if I be righteous
צדק 
Tsadaq 
Usage: 41

yet will I not lift up
נסה נשׂא 
Nasa' 
Usage: 653

my head
ראשׁ 
Ro'sh 
Usage: 598

I am full
שׂבע 
 
Usage: 10

קלון 
Qalown 
Usage: 17

ראה 
Ra'eh 
see
Usage: 0

References

Hastings

Job

Context Readings

Job Continues His Response To Bildad

14 If I sinned, wilt thou mark me and not cleanse me from my iniquity? 15 ‘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.
16 And thou dost increase. Thou dost hunt me as a fierce lion; turning and doing marvels in me.

Cross References

Isaiah 3:11

Woe unto the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for according to the work of his hands it shall be done unto him.

Job 9:15

Who even though I am righteous, yet I would not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.

Job 10:7

Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is no one that can deliver out of thy hand.

Psalm 25:18

Resh Look upon my affliction and my pain and forgive all my sins.

Exodus 3:7

And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

Job 9:12

Behold, he shall take away, who can cause him to restore? Who shall say unto him, What doest thou?

Job 9:20-21

If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, he shall prove me perverse.

Job 9:29

If I am wicked, why then shall I toil in vain?

Job 21:6

Even I myself, when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling takes hold on my flesh.

Job 23:15

Therefore, I shall fear before his face; I shall consider, and I shall fear him.

Job 27:7

Let my enemy be as the wicked and my adversary as the unrighteous.

Psalm 9:17

The wicked shall be put into Sheol, all the Gentiles that forget God.

Psalm 119:153

RESH. Consider my affliction and deliver me; for I have not forgotten thy law.

Isaiah 6:5

Then I said, Woe is me! for I am dead 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 the hosts.

Isaiah 64:5-6

Thou didst come out to meet him that with rejoicing had worked righteous ness. In thy ways they remembered thee. Behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: thy ways are eternal, and we shall be saved.

Lamentations 1:20

Resh Look, O LORD; for I am in distress; my bowels are troubled; my heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled; abroad the sword bereaves; at home there is as death.

Lamentations 5:1-22

Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us; look, and behold our reproach.

Malachi 3:18

Therefore become ye converted, and ye shall make a difference between the just and the wicked, between him that serves God and him that did not serve him.

Luke 17:10

So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable slaves: we have done that which was our duty to do.

Romans 2:8-9

but unto those that are contentious and do not obey the truth, but are persuaded by unrighteousness, indignation and wrath.

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