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Job 30:19
19He has thrown me down into the mud. I am no better than dust and ashes on the ground.
Job 30:19 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
- New International Version (NIV)He throws me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.
- English Standard Version (ESV)God has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
- New King James Version (NKJV)He has cast me into the mire, And I have become like dust and ashes.
Context of Job 30:19
17At night, my bones are painful. The pain is always there in my body. 18God has used his power to take hold of me. He has held my shirt around my neck. He has thrown me down into the mud. I am no better than dust and ashes on the ground. 20I call aloud to you, God, but you do not answer me. When I stand to pray, you only look at me. 21You have become cruel to me. You have used your strength to attack me.
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הֹרָ֥נִי לַחֹ֑מֶר וָ֝אֶתְמַשֵּׁ֗ל כֶּעָפָ֥ר וָאֵֽפֶר׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 30:19
- Job 9:31But then God would throw me down into a dirty hole. Even my own clothes would be ashamed of me!
- Psalms 69:1Please rescue me, God, because the deep water has come up to my neck.
- Jeremiah 38:6So the officers took hold of Jeremiah. They put him in a deep hole in the palace yard where the guards were. Prince Malkijah had made the hole to store water. There was no water in the hole, but only mud. They tied ropes around Jeremiah and they slowly dropped him into the hole. Jeremiah fell deep into the mud.
- Job 2:8Job was very upset and he sat down among some ashes. He used a piece of a broken pot to remove the bad bits of skin.
- Job 42:6So I am ashamed of the things that I said. I sit here in dirt and in ashes to show you that I am very sorry.’
- Genesis 18:27Then Abraham spoke again. He said, ‘I have been brave enough to speak to the Lord. I know that I am nothing more than dust and ashes.
Commentaries on Job 30:19
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 19He hath cast me into the mire - That is, God has done it. In this book the name of God is often understood where the speaker seems to avoid it, in order that it may not be needlessly repeated. On the meaning of the expression here, see the notes at Job 9:31. And I am become like dust and ashes - Either in appearance, or I am regarded as being as worthless as the mire of the streets. Rosenmuller supposes it means, “I am more like a mass of inanimate matter…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-31Verses 15-31 Job complains a great deal. Harbouring hard thoughts of God was the sin which did, at this time, most easily beset Job. When inward temptations join with outward calamities, the soul is hurried as in a tempest, and is filled with confusion. But woe be to those who really have God for an enemy! Compared with the awful state of ungodly men, what are all outward, or even inward temporal afflictions? There is something with which Job comforts…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 19dust and ashes: Earlier, Job sat among the ashes in pain (2:8). Later, he would sit in dust and ashes to "repent" (42:6).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 16-2316-23. Job's outward calamities affect his mind. poured out--in irrepressible complaints (Psa 42:4; Jos 7:5).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 30
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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