Job 16:15
Sackcloth I have sewed on my skin, And have rolled in the dust my horn.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
In Context
14He breaketh me — breach upon breach, He runneth upon me as a mighty one.
16My face is foul with weeping, And on mine eyelids [is] death-shade.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:10Jehovah — broken down are His adversaries, Against them in the heavens He thundereth: Jehovah judgeth the ends of earth, And giveth strength to His king, And exalteth the horn of His anointed.'
Job 30:19Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.
Psalms 75:5Raise not up on high your horn, (Ye speak with a stiff neck.)
Isaiah 22:12And call doth the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, In that day, to weeping and to lamentation, And to baldness and to girding on of 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 →