Job 30:19
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.
He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
21 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
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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
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
Read in contextJob 42:6
Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Read in contextPsalms 69:14
Deliver 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.
Read in contextGenesis 18:27
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
Read in contextJeremiah 38:6
Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
Read in contextPsalms 69:1–2
Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
Read in contextJob 2:8
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
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