Job 16:15
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and rolled my horn in the dust.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
In Context
14He breaketh me with breach upon breach; he runneth upon me like a mighty man.
16My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:10They that strive with Jehovah shall be broken to pieces; in the heavens will he thunder upon them. Jehovah will judge the ends of the earth; and he will give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.
Job 30:19He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
Psalms 75:5Lift not up your horn on high; speak not arrogantly with a [stiff] neck.
Isaiah 22:12And in that day did the Lord Jehovah of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with 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 →