Job 30:19

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 filled with pain, which gnaws at me relentlessly. 18With a strong hand, God grabs my shirt. He grips me by the collar of my coat. He has thrown me into the mud. I’m nothing more than dust and ashes. 20“I cry to you, O God, but you don’t answer. I stand before you, but you don’t even look. 21You have become cruel toward me. You use your power to persecute me.

Job 30:19 word by word

הֹרָ֥נִי לַחֹ֑מֶר וָ֝אֶתְמַשֵּׁ֗ל כֶּעָפָ֥ר וָאֵֽפֶר׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• He hath castיָרָאyârâh yârâ' · to shootH3384
• me into the mireחֹ֫מֶרchômer · clayH2563
• and I am become likeמָשַׁלmâshal · to likenH4911
• dustעָפָר‛âphâr · dustH6083
• and ashesאֵ֫פֶר'êpher · ashesH665

Cross-references for Job 30:19

• Job 9:31you would plunge me into a muddy ditch, and my own filthy clothing would hate me.
• Psalms 69:1Save me, O God, for the floodwaters are up to my neck.
• Jeremiah 38:6So the officials took Jeremiah from his cell and lowered him by ropes into an empty cistern in the prison yard. It belonged to Malkijah, a member of the royal family. There was no water in the cistern, but there was a thick layer of mud at the bottom, and Jeremiah sank down into it.
• Job 2:8Job scraped his skin with a piece of broken pottery as he sat among the ashes.
• Job 42:6I take back everything I said, and I sit in dust and ashes to show my repentance.”
• Genesis 18:27Then Abraham spoke again. “Since I have begun, let me speak further to my Lord, even though I am but 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

Topics related to Job 30:19

• Afflictions and Adversities

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• Thief
• Ashes
• Job, Book of
• Brother

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