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If I am wicked
"If I am guilty" or "If I do evil things"
woe to me
"how terrible will it be for me"
even if I were righteous
"even if I always did things rightly"
lift up my head
This idiom means to be sure or confident. AT: "hold my head up" or "be confident" or "be sure about myself" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom)
I am filled with disgrace
The abstract noun "disgrace" can be translated using the adjective "disgraced." AT: "I am filled up with being disgraced" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-abstractnouns)
disgrace
"shame"
am looking at my own suffering
The abstract noun "suffering" can be translated using the verb "suffer." AT: "am looking at how I suffer" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-abstractnouns)
and am looking
The understood subject may be supplied. AT: "and I am looking" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-ellipsis)
If my head lifts itself
This idiom means to become self-confident or proud. AT: "If I become proud" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rpronouns)
you hunt me down like a lion
Possible meanings of this simile are 1) God hunts Job like a lion hunts its prey or 2) Job is like a lion being hunted by God. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile)
once again you show yourself powerful to me
This phrase expresses irony in how God's marvelous power is displayed in how he goes against Job. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-irony and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rpronouns)