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.
Cross References
Job 6:29Reconsider; do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my righteousness is at stake.
Job 9:15For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.
Job 10:7though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
Psalm 83:16Cover their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O LORD.
Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.
Treasury of Scripture
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;
If I be wicked
Job 10:7
Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
Job 9:29
If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
Job 27:7
Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
righteous
Job 9:12,15,20,21
Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou? …
Isaiah 64:5,6
Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved…
Luke 17:10
So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.
I am full
Job 21:6
Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
Job 23:15
Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
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Exodus 3:7
And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
Psalm 25:18
Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
Psalm 119:153
RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.
