Job 16:15
I haue sowed a sackcloth vpon my skinne, and haue abased mine horne vnto the dust.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
In Context
14He hath broken me with one breaking vpon another, and runneth vpon me like a gyant.
16My face is withered with weeping, and the shadow of death is vpon mine eyes,
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:10The Lordes aduersaries shall be destroyed, and out of heauen shall he thunder vpon them: the Lord shall iudge the endes of the worlde, and shall giue power vnto his King, and exalt the horne of his Anoynted.
Job 30:19He hath cast me into the myre, and I am become like ashes and dust.
Psalms 75:5Lift not vp your horne on high, neither speake with a stiffe necke.
Isaiah 22:12And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call vnto weeping and mourning, and to baldnes and girding with sackecloth.
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 →