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Job’s Plea to God

Job 10:15

In 11 translations

BSB
If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.
KJV
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;
WEB
If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.
ASV
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.
LSV
If I have done wickedly—woe to me, || And righteously—I do not lift up my head, || Full of shame—then see my affliction,
YLT
If I have done wickedly — woe to me, And righteously — I lift not up my head, Full of shame — then see my affliction,
DBY
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; —
DRC
And if I be wicked, woe unto me: and if just, I shall not lift up my head, being filled with affliction and misery.
GNV
If I haue done wickedly, wo vnto me: if I haue done righteously, I will not lift vp mine head, being full of confusion, because I see mine affliction.
JPS
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.
LXXE
Or if I should be ungodly, woe is me: and if I should be righteous, I cannot lift myself up, for I am full of dishonour.

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WLC
אִם־רָשַׁ֡עְתִּי אַלְלַ֬י לִ֗י וְ֭צָדַקְתִּי לֹא־אֶשָּׂ֣א רֹאשִׁ֑י שְׂבַ֥ע קָ֝ל֗וֹן וּרְאֵ֥ה עָנְיִֽי׃
LXX-Br
Ἐάν τε γὰρ ἀσεβήσω, οἴμοι· ἐὰν δὲ ὦ δίκαιος, οὐ δύναμαι ἀνακύψαι, πλήρης γὰρ ἀτιμίας εἰμί.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.
  • Job 9:15For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.
  • Job 9:20–21Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty. Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.
  • Job 10:7though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
  • Psalms 25:18Consider my affliction and trouble, and take away all my sins.
  • Malachi 3:18So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”
  • Isaiah 6:5Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”
  • Job 27:7May my enemy be like the wicked and my opponent like the unjust.
  • Psalms 119:153Look upon my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten Your law.
  • Luke 17:10So you also, when you have done everything commanded of you, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’”
  • Lamentations 5:1–22Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace! Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners. We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows. We must buy…
  • Lamentations 1:20See, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am churning within; my heart is pounding within me, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is death.
  • Romans 2:8–9But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger. There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil, first for the Jew, then for the…
  • Job 21:6When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.
  • Job 23:15Therefore I am terrified in His presence; when I consider this, I fear Him.
  • Isaiah 64:5–6You welcome those who gladly do right, who remember Your ways. Surely You were angry, for we sinned. How can we be saved if we remain in our sins? Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous…

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