Job 10:15

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.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The 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;

In Context

14If I have sinned, then couldst thou watch me, and, from mine iniquity, thou wouldst not acquit me:

16When it is lifted up, like a howling lion, thou dost hunt me, Then again thou dost shew thyself marvellous against me.

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Cross References

Job 9:12Lo! he snatcheth away, who can bring it back? Who shall say unto him, What wouldst thou do?

Job 9:20If I should justify myself, mine own mouth, would condemn me,—I blameless? then had it shewn me perverse.

Job 10:7Though it is, within thine own knowledge, that I would not be lawless, and, none, out of thy hand, can deliver?

Job 23:15For this cause, from his presence, am I driven in fear, I diligently consider and am kept back from him in dread:

Psalms 9:17The lawless, shall return, to hades, all nations forgetful of God.

Psalms 44:16At the voice of him who reproacheth and revileth, At the face of the foe and avenger.

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 →

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