Job 16:15
I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
In Context
14I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.
16My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:10Those who make war against the Lord will be broken; against them he will send his thunder from heaven: the Lord will be judge of the ends of the earth, he will give strength to his king, lifting up the horn of him on whom the holy oil has been put.
Job 30:19Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.
Psalms 75:5\75:4\I say to the men of pride, Let your pride be gone: and to the sinners, Let not your horn be lifted up.
Isaiah 22:12And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief:
Matthew Henry on Job 16:7-17
Grievances of Job. ( b. c. 1520.) 6 Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? 7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. 8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face. 9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. 10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the… Read the whole commentary →