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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 10:15

If I be righteous, etc.] 'Were I righteous I must not lift up my head as an innocent man.' I am full, etc.] RV 'being filled with ignominy, and looking upon my affliction.' But a slight correction gives the very much better sense, 'drunken with affliction.'

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See also Job 10:15 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 10:15. _IF I BE WICKED_] I must meet with that punishment that is due to the workers of iniquity. If _I BE RIGHTEOUS_] I am only in the state which my duty to my Creator requires me to be i...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    IF I BE WICKED, WOE UNTO ME - The meaning of this in this connection is, “I am full of perplexity and sorrow. Whether I am wicked or righteous, I find no comfort. Whatever is my character, my efforts...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER S 9-10 JOB ANSWERS BILDAD _ 1. The supremacy and power of God (Job 9:1)_ 2. How then can Job meet Him? (Job 9:11) 3. He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked (Job 9:22) 4. Confession of we...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    Job's tone becomes sharper. He accuses God of having created him only to torment him. What profit is there to God in destroying the work that has cost Him so much pains? (Job 10:3)? Is God short-sight...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    CONFUSION. Hebrew. _kalon =_ shame. First occurrence....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The contradiction between this dealing with Job in the womb and since his birth and God's present treatment of him is only to be reconciled by the supposition that God's present severe treatment of Jo...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _if I be wicked_ Better, WERE I WICKED guilty of great offences. Job cannot express what would be the punishment of greater sins were e guilty of them, but indicates its incalculable severity by the e...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    IF I BE WICKED, WOE UNTO ME! &C.— i.e. "I cannot, will not hope for any temporal deliverance upon account of my righteousness, as you, my friends, are endeavouring to persuade me, from a mistaken prin...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    5. HE WOULD ASK THE ALMIGHTY THE REASON FOR THE CHANGE IN HIS TREATMENT OF HIS CREATURE. (JOB 10:1-22) TEXT 10:1-22 10 My soul is weary of my life; I will give free coarse to my complaint; I will s...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _IF I SIN, THEN THOU MARKEST ME, AND THOU WILT NOT ACQUIT ME FROM MINE INIQUITY._ If I sin, then thou markest me. Job is perplexed because God "marks" every sin of his with such ceaseless rigour. IF...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Job suggested a more complex explanation. Perhaps God had a secret plan. Perhaps God wanted to prove that all people were evil. So God made Job. God watched Job’s actions. Job was much better than oth...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 10 JOB PRAYS TO GOD JOB PR...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אִם ־רָשַׁ֡עְתִּי אַלְלַ֬י לִ֗י וְ֭ צָדַקְתִּי...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    X. THE THOUGHT OF A DAYSMAN JOB 9:1; Job 10:1 Job SPEAKS IT is with an infinitely sad restatement of what God has been made to appear to him by Bildad's speech that Job begins his reply. Yes, yes; it...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    SOUL BITTERNESS Job 10:1 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 mu...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Notwithstanding all this, Job appealed to God. Turning from his answer to Bildad, he poured out his agony as in the presence of the Most High. It was by no means a hopeful appeal, but it was an appeal...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    If I be wicked, woe unto me; and [if] I be righteous, [yet] will I not (p) lift up my head. [I am] full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction; (p) I will always walk in fear and humility,...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Woe. Thou wilt not suffer me to pass unpunished. (Calmet) --- Head. I will adore in silence, chap. ix. 15, 31. (Ven. Bede) (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (14) В¶ If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. (15) 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;...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    IF I BE WICKED, WOE IS ME,.... In this world, and to all eternity; afflictions will abide me here, and everlasting wrath hereafter: these are the woes that belong to a wicked man; that is, a profane a...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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; Ver. 15. _If I be wicked, woe unto me_] Here he b...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _If I be wicked_ That is, an ungodly hypocrite, as my friends esteem me; _wo unto me_ I am truly and extremely miserable; and, if I continue wicked, must be eternally so. _And if I be righteous_ An up...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB RENEWS HIS COMPLAINT OF HIS AFFLICTION...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    If I be wicked, woe unto me! He must expect a sudden and violent punishment. AND IF I BE RIGHTEOUS, YET WILL I NOT LIFT UP MY HEAD, even if he were right, he would not dare to look up with freedom and...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    AN ATTEMPT TO REASON WITH GOD (vv.1-22) Since there was no mediator, Job in this chapter (from verse 2 on) directs all of his words directly to God, reasoning with Him as regards why God should deal...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    Has God determined that he will suffer regardless of whether he is innocent or guilty, does it make any difference? "Job has no pride left, he cannot lift up his head" _(Strauss p. 100)._ If Job would...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    14-22 Job did not deny that as a sinner he deserved his sufferings; but he thought that justice was executed upon him with peculiar rigour. His gloom, unbelief, and hard thoughts of God, were as much...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    IF I BE WICKED, i.e. an ungodly hypocrite, as my friends esteem me, then I am truly and extremely, and must be eternally, miserable. RIGHTEOUS, i.e. an upright and good man: so, whether good or bad, a...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 10:15 wicked H7561 (H8804) woe H480 righteous H6663 (H8804) up H5375 (H8799) head H7218 full...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Job's answer to Bildad continued. CHARACTERS: God, Job, Bildad. CONCLUSION: Sometimes, when in affliction, the believer is tempted to think that God's providences and His justice cannot be...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 10:1. _I will leave my complaint upon myself._ These words seem to imply, that he would bear his complaint in silence; but it immediately follows, _I will speak in the bitterness of my soul._ Oste...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Thy visitation hath preserved my spirit._ ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF AND APPEAL TO GOD Job addresses God as his Creator, Preserver, and Benefactor; he seems to ask, why, knowing his frailty, He laid upon him...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Is it good unto Thee that Thou shouldest oppress?_ JOB’S MISTAKEN VIEWS OF HIS SUFFERINGS I. As inconsistent with all his ideas of his Maker. 1. As inconsistent with His goodness. “Is it good unto...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 10:15 Even if he is in the RIGHT (v. Job 10:15; see also Job 9:15,...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _JOB’S REPLY TO BILDAD—CONTINUED_ His speech takes the form rather of an expostulation with God in regard to his afflictions. The vehemence of his spirit reaches its height in this chapter. Does not...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOB 10:1 Having answered Bildad, Job proceeds to pour out the bitterness of his soul in a pathetic complaint, which he addresses directly to God. There is not much that is novel in the lon...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now Job goes on in the tenth chapter. He said, My soul is weary of my life (Job 10:1); He goes right back into his misery. He looks for the answer, but it isn't there; it isn't to be found. And so I...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Exodus 3:7; Isaiah 3:11; Isaiah 6:5; Isaiah 64:5; Isaiah 64:6;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Wicked — An hypocrite, as my friends esteem me. Righteous — An upright man; so whether good or bad, all comes to one. Yet — Yet I have no comfort, or hopes of any good. Confusion — I am confounded wit...

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