God’s Word Translation
Job 30:19
19He throws me into the dirt so that I become like dust and ashes.
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 God pierces my bones. My body doesn’t rest. 18With great strength he grabs my clothes. He seizes me by the collar of my robe. He throws me into the dirt so that I become like dust and ashes. 20“I call to you for help, but you don’t answer me. I stand up, but you just look at me. 21You have begun to treat me cruelly. With your mighty hand you assault me.
Read all of Job 30Job 30:19 word by word
הֹרָ֥נִי לַחֹ֑מֶר וָ֝אֶתְמַשֵּׁ֗ל כֶּעָפָ֥ר וָאֵֽפֶר׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 30:19
- Job 9:31then you would plunge me into a muddy pit, and my own clothes would find me disgusting.
- Psalms 69:1Save me, O God! The water is already up to my neck!
- Jeremiah 38:6So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son. It was in the courtyard of the prison. They used ropes to lower Jeremiah into the cistern. There was no water in the cistern, only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.
- Job 2:8Job took a piece of broken pottery to scratch himself as he sat in the ashes.
- Job 42:6That is why I take back what I said, and I sit in dust and ashes to show that I am sorry.”
- Genesis 18:27Abraham asked, “Consider now, if I may be so bold as to ask you, although I’m ⌞only⌟ 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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