Job 16:15
He hath torn me with wound upon wound, he hath rushed in upon me like a giant.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
In Context
16I have sowed sackcloth upon my skin, and have covered my flesh with ashes.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:10The adversaries of the Lord shall fear him: and upon them shall he thunder in the heavens. The Lord shall judge the ends of the earth, and he shall give empire to his king, and shall exalt the horn of his Christ.
Job 30:19I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes.
Psalms 75:5I said to the wicked: Do not act wickedly: and to the sinners: Lift not up the horn.
Isaiah 22:12And the Lord, the God of hosts, in that day shall call to weeping, and to mourning, 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 →