15 If I have done wickedly, woe unto me: if I have done righteously, I will not [a]lift up mine head, being full of confusion, because I see mine affliction.

16 But let it increase: hunt thou me as a lion: return and show thyself [b]marvelous upon me.

17 Thou renewest thy plagues against me, and thou increasest thy wrath against me: [c]changes and armies of sorrows are against me.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 10:15 I will always walk in fear and humility, knowing that none is just before thee.
  2. Job 10:16 Job being sore assaulted in this battle between the flesh and the spirit, bursteth out into these affections, wishing rather short days than long pain.
  3. Job 10:17 That is, diversity of diseases and in great abundance: showing that God hath infinite means to punish man.

15 If I am guilty(A)—woe to me!(B)
    Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head,(C)
for I am full of shame
    and drowned in[a] my affliction.(D)
16 If I hold my head high, you stalk me like a lion(E)
    and again display your awesome power against me.(F)
17 You bring new witnesses against me(G)
    and increase your anger toward me;(H)
    your forces come against me wave upon wave.(I)

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  1. Job 10:15 Or and aware of