“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;”
Job expresses that if he is wicked, woe to him, and if righteous, he cannot lift his head, expressing the paradox that seems to obtain regardless of his moral status: he is condemned. The inability to lift his head suggests shame and degradation; yet such shame would be justified only if he were guilty. The paradox reveals that righteousness and guilt yield the same result.
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