Job 16:15
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my horn in the dust.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 reddened with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:10They that strive with the LORD shall be broken to pieces; against them will He thunder in heaven; the LORD 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 75:5(75-6) Lift not up your horn on high; speak not insolence with a haughty neck.
Isaiah 22:12And in that day did the Lord, the GOD of hosts, call to weeping, and to lamentation, 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 →