Parallel Verses

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 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.

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, then you would watch me and you would not acquit me of my iniquity. 15 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. 16 If I lift myself up, you hunt me as a fierce lion, and again you display your power against me.

Cross References

Isaiah 3:11

Too bad for the wicked sinners! For they will get exactly what they deserve.

Job 9:15

Although I am innocent, I could not answer him; I could only plead with my judge for mercy.

Job 10:7

although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?

Psalm 25:18

See my pain and suffering! Forgive all my sins!

Exodus 3:7

The Lord 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

If he snatches away, who can turn him back? Who dares to say to him, 'What are you doing?'

Job 9:20-21

Although I am innocent, my mouth would condemn me; although I am blameless, it would declare me perverse.

Job 9:29

If I am guilty, why then weary myself in vain?

Job 21:6

For, when I think about this, I am terrified and my body feels a shudder.

Job 23:15

That is why I am terrified in his presence; when I consider, I am afraid because of him.

Job 27:7

"May my enemy be like the wicked, my adversary like the unrighteous.

Psalm 9:17

The wicked are turned back and sent to Sheol; this is the destiny of all the nations that ignore God,

Psalm 119:153

(Resh) See my pain and rescue me! For I do not forget your law.

Isaiah 6:5

I said, "Too bad for me! I am destroyed, for my lips are contaminated by sin, and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin. My eyes have seen the king, the Lord who commands armies."

Isaiah 64:5-6

You assist those who delight in doing what is right, who observe your commandments. Look, you were angry because we violated them continually. How then can we be saved?

Lamentations 1:20

(Resh) Look, O Lord! I am distressed; my stomach is in knots! My heart is pounding inside me. Yes, I was terribly rebellious! Out in the street the sword bereaves a mother of her children; Inside the house death is present.

Lamentations 5:1-22

O Lord, reflect on what has happened to us; consider and look at our disgrace.

Malachi 3:18

Then once more you will see that I make a distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not.

Luke 17:10

So you too, when you have done everything you were commanded to do, should say, 'We are slaves undeserving of special praise; we have only done what was our duty.'"

Romans 2:8-9

but wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition and do not obey the truth but follow unrighteousness.

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