Job 16:15
They sewed sackcloth upon my skin, 1 And my strength has been spent on the ground. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
In Context
14They overthrew me with fall upon fall: 1 They ran upon me in their might. 1
16My belly has been parched with wailing, 1 And darkness is on my eyelids. 1
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:10The Lord will weaken his adversary; 1 The Lord is holy. 1 Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, 1 Nor let the mighty man boast in his strength, 1 And let not the rich man boast in his wealth; 1 But let him that boasts boast in this, 1 To understand and know the Lord, 1 And to execute judgment and justice in the midst of the earth. 1 The Lord has gone up to the heavens, and has thundered: 1 He will judge the extremities of the earth, 1 And he gives strength to our kings, 1 And will exalt the horn of his Christ. And she left him there before the Lord,
Job 30:19And thou hast counted me as clay; 1 My portion is in dust and ashes. 1
Psalms 75:5Thou dost wonderfully shine forth from the everlasting mountains. 1
Isaiah 22:12And the Lord, the Lord of hosts, called in that day for weeping, and lamentation, and 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 →