Job 10:15

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“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.”

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BSBPD

“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.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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;”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“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.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“If I have done wickedly--woe to me, And righteously--I lift not up my head, Full of shame--then see my affliction,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 10:15 — 21 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 3:7The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.
  2. Job 9:12If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ‘What are You doing?’
  3. Job 9:15For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.
  4. Job 9:20Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.
  5. Job 9:29Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?
  6. Job 10:7though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
  7. Job 21:6When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.
  8. Job 23:15Therefore I am terrified in His presence; when I consider this, I fear Him.
  9. Job 27:7May my enemy be like the wicked and my opponent like the unjust.
  10. Psalms 9:17The wicked will return to Sheol— all the nations who forget God.
  11. Psalms 25:18Consider my affliction and trouble, and take away all my sins.
  12. Psalms 44:16at the voice of the scorner and reviler, because of the enemy, bent on revenge.
  13. Psalms 119:153Look upon my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten Your law.
  14. Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.
  15. 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.”
  16. Isaiah 64:5You 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?
  17. 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.
  18. Lamentations 5:1Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
  19. Malachi 3:18So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”
  20. 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.’”
  21. Romans 2:8But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.

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