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Job 10:15

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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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Matthew Henry Bible Commentaryv. 15

Job owns here that he was full of confusion (Job 10:15), and as he was so was his discourse: he knew not what to say, and perhaps sometimes scarcely knew what he said. In this chapter, I. He complains of the hardships he was under (Job 10:1-7), and then comforts himself with this, that he was in the hand of the God that made him, and pleads that (Job 10:8-13). II. He complains again of the severity of God's dealings with him (Job 10:14-17), and then comforts himself with this, that death would put an end to his troubles (Job 10:18-22).

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Strong's Concordancev. 15

רָשַׁע (râshaʻ, H7561) — to be (causatively, do or declare) wrong; by implication, to disturb, violate אַלְלַי (ʼalᵉlay, H480) — alas! צָדַק (tsâdaq, H6663) — to be (causatively, make) right (in a moral or forensic sense) נָשָׂא (nâsâʼ, H5375) — to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative רֹאשׁ (rôʼsh, H7218) — the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of… שָׂבֵעַ (sâbêaʻ, H7649) — satiated (in a pleasant or disagreeable sense) קָלוֹן (qâlôwn, H7036) — disgrace; (by implication) the pudenda רָאֶה (râʼeh, H7202) — seeing, i.e. experiencing רָאָה (râʼâh, H7200) — to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied,… עֳנִי (ʻŏnîy, H6040) — depression, i.e. misery

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Isaiah 3:11rank 7

Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.

Job 9:15rank 6

For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.

Job 10:7rank 4

though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?

Malachi 3:18rank 3

So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”

Isaiah 6:5rank 3

Then 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.”

Psalms 25:18rank 3

Consider my affliction and trouble, and take away all my sins.

Psalms 119:153rank 2

Look upon my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten Your law.

Job 9:29rank 2

Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?

Job 27:7rank 2

May my enemy be like the wicked and my opponent like the unjust.

Job 23:15rank 2

Therefore I am terrified in His presence; when I consider this, I fear Him.

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