Job 30:19
17 Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.
18 With great force He grasps my garment; He seizes me by the collar of my tunic.
He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.
20 I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me.
21 You have ruthlessly turned on me; You oppose me with Your strong hand.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.
- KJV
- He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
- WEB
- He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.
- ASV
- He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.
- DARBY
- He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
- BLB
- He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
- ÅB
- Han har kastet meg ut i skarnet, så jeg er blitt lik støv og aske.
- OTB
- Han har kastet meg i gjørmen,
og jeg er redusert til støv og aske. - B1930
- Han har kastet mig ut i skarnet, så jeg er blitt lik støv og aske.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 9:31
then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.
Read in contextJob 42:6
Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”
Read in contextPsalms 69:14
Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters.
Read in contextGenesis 18:27
Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—
Read in contextJeremiah 38:6
So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.
Read in contextPsalms 69:1–2
Save me, O God, for the waters are up to my neck.
Read in contextJob 2:8
And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.
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