Job 30:19
Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
In Context
18By the abundance of power, Is my clothing changed, As the mouth of my coat it doth gird me.
20I cry unto Thee, And Thou dost not answer me, I have stood, and Thou dost consider me.
Cross References
Job 2:8And he taketh to him a potsherd to scrape himself with it, and he is sitting in the midst of the ashes.
Job 42:6Therefore do I loathe [it], And I have repented on dust and ashes.
Psalms 69:14Deliver me from the mire, and let me not sink, Let me be delivered from those hating me, And from deep places of 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 →