Parallel Verses

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.

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 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 sin, then You mark me, and You will not acquit me from my iniquity. 15 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. 16 For it increases! You hunt me as a fierce lion; and again You show Yourself marvelous on me.

Cross References

Isaiah 3:11

Woe to the wicked! For the evil doing of his hand will be done to him.

Job 9:15

Whom, though I were righteous, yet I would not answer; I seek mercy for my judgment.

Job 10:7

You know that I am not wicked; and there is none who can deliver out of Your hand.

Psalm 25:18

Look on my affliction and my pain, and forgive all my sins.

Exodus 3:7

And Jehovah said, I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows.

Job 9:12

Behold, He takes away; who can turn Him back? Who will say to Him, What are You doing?

Job 9:20-21

If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me; though I am perfect, He shall declare me perverse.

Job 9:29

I have been condemned; why then should I labor in vain?

Job 21:6

And if I remember, I am afraid, and trembling takes hold on my flesh.

Job 23:15

Therefore I am troubled at His presence; when I look, I am afraid of Him.

Job 27:7

Let my enemy be like the wicked, and he who rises up against me as the perverse.

Psalm 9:17

The wicked shall be turned into hell, all the nations that forget God.

Psalm 119:153

RESH: Look on my affliction, and deliver me; for I do not forget Your Law.

Isaiah 6:5

Then I said, Woe is me! For I am undone; for 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, Jehovah of Hosts.

Isaiah 64:5-6

You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember You in Your ways. Behold, You were angry, for we sinned. In them is eternity, and we will be saved.

Lamentations 1:20

Behold, O Jehovah, for I am in trouble; my inward parts ferment; my heart is turned within me, for I have grievously rebelled. On the outside the sword bereaves; in the house it is as death.

Lamentations 5:1-22

Remember, O Jehovah, what has been to us; look down and see our shame.

Malachi 3:18

Then you shall again see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God, and him who does not serve Him.

Luke 17:10

So likewise you, when you shall have done all the things commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants, for we have done what we ought to do.

Romans 2:8-9

But to those who indeed disobeying the truth out of self-seeking, and obeying unrighteousness, will be anger and wrath,

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