Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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 did sin, thou haddest an eye unto me, and shalt not declare me innocent because of mine offense. 15 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. 16 Thou huntest me out, being in heaviness, as it were a lion, and troublest me out of measure.

Cross References

Isaiah 3:11

But woe be unto the ungodly and unrighteous, for they shall be rewarded after their works.

Job 9:15

Yea though I be righteous, yet will I not give him one word again, but meekly submit myself to my judge.

Job 10:7

Whereas, notwithstanding, thou knowest that I am no wicked person, and that there is no man able to deliver me out of thine hand.

Psalm 25:18

Look upon my adversity and misery, and forgive me all my sin.

Exodus 3:7

Then the LORD said, "I have surely seen the trouble of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry, which they have of their taskmasters. For I know their sorrow,

Job 9:12

If he be hasty to take anything away, who will make him restore it again? Who will say unto him, 'What doest thou?'

Job 9:20-21

If I will justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me; if I will put forth my self for a perfect man, he shall prove me a wicked doer.

Job 9:29

If I be then a wicked doer, why have I laboured in vain?

Job 21:6

For when I ponder and consider this, I am afraid, and my flesh is smitten with fear.

Job 23:15

This is the cause, that I shrink at his presence, so that when I consider him I am afraid of him.

Job 27:7

"Therefore mine enemy shall be found as the ungodly; and he that taketh part against me, as the unrighteous.

Psalm 9:17

The wicked must be turned unto hell, and all the people that forget God.

Psalm 119:153

{Res} O consider mine adversity, and deliver me, for I do not forget thy law.

Isaiah 6:5

Then I said, "O woe is me! For I am lost: inasmuch as I am a man of unclean lips, and dwell among people that hath unclean lips also. For mine eyes have seen the King and LORD of Hosts."

Isaiah 64:5-6

Thou helpest him that doth right with cheerfulness, and them that think upon thy ways. But lo, thou art angry: for we offend, and have been ever in sin, and there is not one whole.

Lamentations 1:20

{Res} Consider, O LORD, how I am troubled: my womb is disquieted, my heart turneth about in me, and I am full of heaviness. The sword hurteth me without, and within I am like unto death.

Lamentations 5:1-22

{The Prayer of Jeremiah} Call to remembrance, O LORD, what we have suffered; consider and see our confusion.

Malachi 3:18

Turn you therefore, and consider what difference is betwixt the righteous and ungodly: betwixt him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.

Luke 17:10

So likewise ye, when ye have done all those things which are commanded unto 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 rebellious, and disobey the truth, and follow iniquity, shall come indignation and wrath,

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