Job 16:15
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust.
American Standard Version
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 giant.
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; Against them will he thunder in heaven: 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 am become like dust and ashes.
Psalms 75:5Lift not up your horn on high; Speak not 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 →