Job 16:15

He has cut me with wound after wound. He has rushed upon me like a giant.

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In The King James Version

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

In Context

14He has surrounded me with his lances. He has severely wounded my lower back, he has not been lenient, and he has poured out my organs upon the earth.

16I have sewn sackcloth over my skin, and I have covered my body with ashes.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 2:10The adversaries of the Lord will dread him. And over them, he will thunder in the heavens. The Lord will judge the parts of the earth, and he will give dominion to his king, and he will lift up the horn of his Christ.”

Job 30:19I have been treated like dirt, and I have been turned into embers and ashes.

Psalms 75:5You illuminate wondrously from the mountains of eternity.

Isaiah 22:12And in that day, the Lord, the God of hosts, will call to weeping and mourning, to baldness and the wearing of sackcloth.

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 →

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