Job 16:15
Sackcloth have I sewed upon my skin, and my horn I roll in the dust.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
In Context
14He breaketh me down with breach upon breach; he runneth against me like a mighty man.
16My face gloweth from weeping, and on my eyelids resteth the shadow of death:
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:10The Lord—his adversaries will be crushed; out of heaven will he thunder upon them: the Lord will judge the ends of the earth; and he will give strength unto his king, and lift up 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 on high your horn, speak not with a stiffly erect neck.
Isaiah 22:12And the Lord Eternal of hosts called on that day for weeping, and for mourning, and for baldness, and for 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 →