Job 30:19
He has cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
Updated King James 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 great force of my disease is my garment changed: it binds me about as the collar of my coat.
20I cry unto you, and you do not hear me: I stand up, and you regard me not.
Cross References
Job 2:8And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself likewise; and he sat down among the ashes.
Job 42:6Wherefore I detest myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Psalms 69:14Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, 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 →