Job 30:19 · KJV
“He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.”
— Job 30:19
By the great force {of my disease} is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me {not}.
Job 30 — Context
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
18By the great force {of my disease} is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
19He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
20I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me {not}.
21Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me. {become...: Heb. turned to be cruel} {thy...: Heb. the strength of thy hand}
Cross References
Job 9:31
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. {abhor...: or, make me to be abhorred}
Genesis 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:
Psalms 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.
Job 42:6
Wherefore I abhor {myself}, and repent in dust and ashes.
Jeremiah 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. {of Hammelech: or, of the king}
Psalms 69:1-2
[To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, {A Psalm} of David.] Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto {my} soul.
Job 2:8
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.