Job 10:15
If I am a wicked man, I hope/wish that terrible things will happen to me. But even if I am righteous, I still must bow my head and feel ashamed, because I am very disgraced and feel miserable.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
14You were watching to see if I would sin, in order that if I sinned, you would refuse to forgive me.
Cross References
Job 9:12If he wants to snatch something away, no one [RHQ] can hinder him; no one dares to ask him, ‘Why are you doing that?’ [RHQ]
Job 9:20Even though I was innocent, what I would say would cause him to say that I must be punished [MTY]; even though I had not done anything wrong, he would prove that I am guilty.
Job 10:7You know that I am not guilty, and that no one can rescue me from your power [MTY].
Job 23:15So I am terrified in his presence; when I think about what he can do, I am very afraid [DOU].
Psalms 9:17Wicked people will all die and be buried in their graves, and their spirits will go to be with all those who have ◄forgotten about/rejected► you.
Psalms 44:16I hear what those who sneer at me and revile me say; I am ashamed in front of my enemies and those who want to harm me.
Matthew Henry on Job 10:15-22
14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. 15 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; 16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me. 17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me. 18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh… Read the whole commentary →