Job 30:19
He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
In Context
20I cry aloud unto thee, but thou answerest me not: I stand up, and thou fixest thy regard against me.
Cross References
Job 2:8And [Job] took himself a potsherd to scrape himself there with, while he was sitting down among the ashes.
Job 42:6Therefore I reject [what I have said], and repent; because I am dust and ashes.
Psalms 69:14(69:15) Deliver me out of the mire, that I may not sink: let me be delivered from those that hate me, and out of the depths of the waters.
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 →