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 you my affliction; Treasury of Scripture If I be wicked Job 10:7 You know that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of your hand. Job 9:29 If I be wicked, why then labor I in vain? Job 27:7 Let my enemy be as the wicked, and he that rises up against me as the unrighteous. Psalm 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. Isaiah 3:11 Woe to the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him. Isaiah 6:5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the middle of a people of unclean lips... Malachi 3:18 Then shall you return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serves God and him that serves him not. Romans 2:8,9 But to them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath... righteous Job 9:12,15,20,21 Behold, he takes away, who can hinder him? who will say to him, What do you... Isaiah 64:5,6 You meet him that rejoices and works righteousness, those that remember you in your ways: behold, you are wroth; for we have sinned... Luke 17:10 So likewise you, when you shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants... I am full Job 21:6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling takes hold on my flesh. Job 23:15 Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him. see Exodus 3:7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt... Psalm 25:18 Look on my affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins. Psalm 119:153 Consider my affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget your law. Lamentations 1:20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; my heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled... Lamentations 5:1 Remember, O LORD, what is come on us: consider, and behold our reproach. *etc
Context Job's Plea to God
1My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint on myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. 2I will say to God, Do not condemn me; show me why you contend with me. 3Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and shine on the counsel of the wicked? 4Have you eyes of flesh? or see you as man sees? 5Are your days as the days of man? are your years as man's days, 6That you enquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin? 7You know that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of your hand. 8Your hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet you do destroy me. 9Remember, I beseech you, that you have made me as the clay; and will you bring me into dust again? 10Have you not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese? 11You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and have fenced me with bones and sinews. 12You have granted me life and favor, and your visitation has preserved my spirit. 13And these things have you hid in your heart: I know that this is with you. 14If I sin, then you mark me, and you will not acquit me from my iniquity. 15If 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 you my affliction; 16For it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion: and again you show yourself marvelous on me. 17You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me; changes and war are against me. 18Why then have you brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! 19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. 20Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, 21Before I go from where I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; 22A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness. Parallel Verses 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.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And if I be wicked, woe unto me: and if just, I shall not lift up my head, being filled with affliction and misery.
Darby Bible 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; --
King James Bible
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;
Young's 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,
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