Job 30:19

I have been treated like dirt, and I have been turned into embers and ashes.

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In The King James Version

He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

In Context

18By the sheer number of them my clothing is worn away, and they have closed in on me like the collar of my coat.

20I cry to you, and you do not heed me. I stand up, and you do not look back at me.

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Cross References

Job 2:8So he took a shard of earthenware and scraped the discharge, while sitting on a heap of refuse.

Job 42:6Therefore, I find myself reprehensible, and I will do penance in embers and ashes.

Matthew Henry on Job 30:16-31

Job Complains of His Affliction. ( b. c. 1520.) 15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. 16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. 17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. 18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. 19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. 20 I cry unto thee,… Read the whole commentary →

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