Job 16:15
Sackcloth, sewed I on my skin, and rolled—in the dust—my horn:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
In Context
14He made a breach in me, breach upon breach, He ran upon me, like a mighty man.
16My face, is reddened from weeping, and, upon mine eyelashes, is the death-shade:—
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:10As for Yahweh,—they shall be shattered who contend with him, Over him, in the heavens will he thunder, Yahweh, will judge the ends of the earth,—That he may give strength to his King, And exalt the horn of his Anointed One.
Job 30:19He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
Psalms 75:5Do not lift up on high your horn, Nor speak of the Rock, with arrogance;
Isaiah 22:12And, when My Lord Yahweh of hosts called in that day,—for weeping, and for lamentation, and for shaving bare 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 →