Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
And
I am sated with disgrace and
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
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!
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,
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References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 10:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Continues His Response To Bildad
14 If I sin, then thou mark me. And thou will not acquit me from my iniquity. 15 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. 16 And if [my head] exalts itself, thou hunt me as a lion. And again thou show thyself marvelous upon me.
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked! [It is] ill [with him], for what his hands have done shall be done to him.
Job 9:15
Whom, though I were righteous, yet I would not answer. I would make supplication to my judge.
Job 10:7
although thou know that I am not wicked. And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand?
Psalm 25:18
Consider my affliction and my travail, and forgive all my sins.
Exodus 3:7
And LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
Job 9:12
Behold, he seizes; who can hinder him? Who will say to him, What are thou doing?
Job 9:20-21
Though I be righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.
Job 9:29
I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?
Job 21:6
Even when I remember, I am troubled, and horror takes hold on my flesh.
Job 23:15
Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.
Job 27:7
Let my enemy be as the wicked, and let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
Psalm 9:17
Wicked men shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.
Psalm 119:153
Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I do not forget thy law.
Isaiah 6:5
Then I said, 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 my eyes have seen the King, LORD of hosts.
Isaiah 64:5-6
Thou meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember thee in thy ways. Behold, thou were angry, and we sinned. Therefore we have erred.
Lamentations 5:1-22
Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us. Behold, and see our reproach.
Malachi 3:18
Then ye shall return and discern between the righteous man and the wicked man, between him who serves God and him who does not serve him.
Luke 17:10
Thus ye also, when ye did all the things that were commanded you, say, We are unprofitable bondmen, because we have done what we are obligated to do.
Romans 2:8-9
but to those of self-interest, and who indeed disobey the truth but have confidence in unrighteousness--anger and wrath,