Job 30:19
He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
In Context
18With great force He grasps my garment; He seizes me by the collar of my tunic.
20I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me.
Cross References
Job 2:8And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.
Job 42:6Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes.”
Psalms 69:14Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep 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 →