Job 16:15
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 16 connects to 8 cross-references. Job calls his friends 'miserable comforters' and says he could speak as they do if their positions were reversed. He describes God as his adversary who has handed him over to the ungodly. Yet amid despair he appeals to his …
Other Translations
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust.
Sackcloth I have sewed on my skin, And have rolled in the dust my horn.
I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.
Cross References
And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the Lord …
And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his …
He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and …
Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and …