Job 16:15 · KJV
“I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.”
— Job 16:15
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids {is} the shadow of death;
Job 16 — Context
His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
14He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
16My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids {is} the shadow of death;
17Not for {any} injustice in mine hands: also my prayer {is} pure.
Cross References
Genesis 37:34
And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
Psalms 7:5
Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take {it}; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.
Psalms 75:5
Lift not up your horn on high: speak {not with} a stiff neck.
1 Kings 21:27
And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
Isaiah 22:12
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
1 Samuel 2:10
The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.
Job 30:19
He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
Psalms 75:10
All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; {but} the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.