Job 10:15

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If I am guilty, woe to me, and if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head; I am full of shame, and satiated with my affliction.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 3:11 : 11 Woe to the wicked sinners! For they will get exactly what they deserve.
  • Job 9:15 : 15 Although I am innocent, I could not answer him; I could only plead with my judge for mercy.
  • Job 9:20-21 : 20 Although I am innocent, my mouth would condemn me; although I am blameless, it would declare me perverse. 21 I am blameless. I do not know myself. I despise my life.
  • Job 10:7 : 7 although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?
  • Ps 25:18 : 18 See my pain and suffering! Forgive all my sins!
  • Ps 119:153 : 153 ר(Resh) See my pain and rescue me! For I do not forget your law.
  • Job 21:6 : 6 For, when I think about this, I am terrified and my body feels a shudder.
  • Job 23:15 : 15 That is why I am terrified in his presence; when I consider, I am afraid because of him.
  • Job 27:7 : 7 The Condition of the Wicked“May my enemy be like the wicked, my adversary like the unrighteous.
  • Ps 9:17 : 17 The wicked are turned back and sent to Sheol; this is the destiny of all the nations that ignore God,
  • Job 9:29 : 29 If I am guilty, why then weary myself in vain?
  • Exod 3:7 : 7 The LORD said,“I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt. I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
  • Job 9:12 : 12 If he snatches away, who can turn him back? Who dares to say to him,‘What are you doing?’
  • Isa 6:5 : 5 I said,“Woe to me! I am destroyed, for my lips are contaminated by sin, and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin. My eyes have seen the king, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.”
  • Isa 64:5-6 : 5 You assist those who delight in doing what is right, who observe your commandments. Look, you were angry because we violated them continually. How then can we be saved? 6 We are all like one who is unclean, all our so-called righteous acts are like a menstrual rag in your sight. We all wither like a leaf; our sins carry us away like the wind.
  • Lam 1:20 : 20 ר(Resh) Look, O LORD! I am distressed; my stomach is in knots! My heart is pounding inside me. Yes, I was terribly rebellious! Out in the street the sword bereaves a mother of her children; Inside the house death is present.
  • Lam 5:1-9 : 1 The People of Jerusalem Pray: O LORD, reflect on what has happened to us; consider and look at our disgrace. 2 Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes. 3 We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows. 4 We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price. 5 We are pursued– they are breathing down our necks; we are weary and have no rest. 6 We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat. 7 Our forefathers sinned and are dead, but we suffer their punishment. 8 Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power. 9 At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the wilderness. 10 Our skin is hot as an oven due to a fever from hunger. 11 They raped women in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah. 12 Princes were hung by their hands; elders were mistreated. 13 The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor. 14 The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing their music. 15 Our hearts no longer have any joy; our dancing is turned to mourning. 16 The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned! 17 Because of this, our hearts are sick; because of these things, we can hardly see through our tears. 18 For wild animals are prowling over Mount Zion, which lies desolate. 19 But you, O LORD, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation. 20 Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long? 21 Bring us back to yourself, O LORD, so that we may return to you; renew our life as in days before, 22 unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.
  • Mal 3:18 : 18 Then once more you will see that I make a distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not.
  • Luke 17:10 : 10 So you too, when you have done everything you were commanded to do, should say,‘We are slaves undeserving of special praise; we have only done what was our duty.’”
  • Rom 2:8-9 : 8 but wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition and do not obey the truth but follow unrighteousness. 9 There will be affliction and distress on everyone who does evil, on the Jew first and also the Greek,

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