Job 16:15

World English Bible (2000)

I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 37:34 : 34 Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
  • Ps 7:5 : 5 let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.
  • Ps 75:5 : 5 Don't lift up your horn on high. Don't speak with a stiff neck."
  • Isa 22:12 : 12 In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:
  • 1 Kgs 21:27 : 27 It happened, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
  • Job 30:19 : 19 He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.
  • 1 Sam 2:10 : 10 Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. "Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed."
  • Ps 75:10 : 10 I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up. For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm by Asaph. A song.

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