If I am wicked, woe to me! If I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look upon my affliction.
Job 6:29 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Turn, I pray; let no wrong be done. Turn now; my vindication is at stake. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; Yea, return again, my righteousness is in it. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Return [from your suspicion], I pray you, let there be no injustice; yes, return again [to confidence in me], my vindication is in it. American Standard Version (1901) Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice; Yea, return again, my cause is righteous. Common English Bible Turn! Don’t be faithless. Turn now! I am righteous. Catholic Public Domain Version Respond, I beg you, without contention, and, speaking what is just, pass judgment. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Answer, I beseech you, without contention: and speaking that which is just, judge ye. |
If I am wicked, woe to me! If I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look upon my affliction.
I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called upon God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, I am a laughingstock.
But you, come back now, all of you, and I shall not find a sensible person among you.
know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net around me.
But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I shall come out like gold.
Then once more you shall see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.