Job 30:18
With the multitude of them my garment is consumed, and they have girded me about, as with the collar of my coat.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
17In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows: and they that feed upon me, do not sleep.
19I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes.
Cross References
Job 2:7So Satan went forth from the presence Of the Lord, and struck Job with a very grievous ulcer, from the sole of the foot even to the top of his head:
Job 19:20The flesh being consumed. My bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth.
Isaiah 1:5For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad.
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 →