Job 30:19

I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

18With the multitude of them my garment is consumed, and they have girded me about, as with the collar of my coat.

20I cry to thee, and thou hearest me not: I stand up, and thou dost not regard me.

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Cross References

Job 2:8And he took a potsherd and scraped the corrupt matter, sitting on a dunghill.

Job 42:6Therefore I reprehend myself, and do penance in dust and ashes.

Psalms 69:14But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O Lord; for the time of thy good pleasure, O God. In the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.

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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