The Meaning of Job 10:15 Explained

Job 10:15

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;

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

Darby: 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; --

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.

Discover Job 10:15

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 10:15?

MEANING: What does Job 10:15 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 10:15 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 10:15?

What is the context of Job 10:15?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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 {08676;07200:08798} thou mine affliction;

What does Job 10:15 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 10:1-22 - Soul Bitterness

In this chapter Job accuses God of persecuting His own workmanship, Job 20:3; of pursuing him with repeated strokes, as if he had not time enough to wait between them, but must hurry on to achieve His design, Job 10:5; of reversing the careful providence which had watched over his earlier years, Job 10:12; of hunting and playing with him as a wild beast with his prey, Job 10:16-17; and asks that he may be allowed speedily to enter the land of Sheol, Job 10:18-22.

As we read these complaints, we may remember days in our lives when we uttered similar ones, but we are without excuse. And when we are tempted in this direction, it is for us to remember that probably we are being tried to teach the manifold wisdom of God, and that the works of God should be made manifest in us, Ephesians 3:10; John 9:3. It will enable us to endure, if we remember that God has conferred on us high honor, by choosing us to show that we can stand the fire, like those iron safes, blackened by smoke, which the makers place in the shop windows to prove the stability of their workmanship. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 10

¹ Job, taking liberty of complaint, expostulates with God about his afflictions
¹⁸ He complains of life, and craves a little ease before death

What do the individual words in Job 10:15 mean?

If I am wicked woe to me and Even [if] I am righteous cannot I lift up my head [I am] full of disgrace and See my misery

אִם־ רָשַׁ֡עְתִּי אַלְלַ֬י לִ֗י וְ֭צָדַקְתִּי לֹא־ אֶשָּׂ֣א רֹאשִׁ֑י שְׂבַ֥ע קָ֝ל֗וֹן וּרְאֵ֥ה עָנְיִֽי

רָשַׁ֡עְתִּי	I am wicked
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, first person common singular Root: רָשַׁע Sense: to be wicked, act wickedly.
אַלְלַ֬י	woe
Parse: Interjection Root: אַלְלַי Sense: woe! alas!.
לִ֗י	to me
Parse: Preposition, first person common singular
וְ֭צָדַקְתִּי	and Even [if] I am righteous
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Conjunctive perfect, first person common singular Root: צָדַק Sense: to be just, be righteous.
לֹא־	cannot
Parse: Adverb, Negative particle Root: הֲלֹא Sense: not, no.
אֶשָּׂ֣א	I lift up
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, first person common singular Root: נָשָׂא Sense: to lift, bear up, carry, take.
רֹאשִׁ֑י	my head
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, first person common singular Root: רֹאשׁ Sense: head, top, summit, upper part, chief, total, sum, height, front, beginning.
שְׂבַ֥ע	[I am] full
Parse: Adjective, masculine singular construct Root: שָׂבַע Sense: to be satisfied, be sated, be fulfilled, be surfeited.
קָ֝ל֗וֹן	of disgrace
Parse: Noun, masculine singular Root: קָלֹון Sense: shame, disgrace, dishonour, ignominy.
וּרְאֵ֥ה	and See
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Imperative, masculine singular Root: רָאָה Sense: to see, look at, inspect, perceive, consider.
עָנְיִֽי	my misery
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, first person common singular Root: עֳנִי Sense: affliction, poverty, misery.

What are the major concepts related to Job 10:15?

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