Job 30:19
Casting me into mire, || And I have become like dust and ashes.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
In Context
18By the abundance of power, || Is my clothing changed, || As the mouth of my coat it girds me.
20I cry to You, || And You do not answer me, I have stood, and You consider me.
Cross References
Job 2:8And he takes to him a potsherd to scrape himself with it, and he is sitting in the midst of the ashes.
Job 42:6Therefore I loathe [it], || And I have sighed on dust and ashes.”
Psalms 69:14Deliver me from the mire, and do not let me sink, || Let me be delivered from those hating me, || And from deep places of 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 →