Job 16:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 37:34 : 34 Then Jacob, giving signs of grief, put on haircloth, and went on weeping for his son day after day.
  • Ps 7:5 : 5 Let my hater go after my soul and take it; let my life be crushed to the earth, and my honour into the dust. (Selah.)
  • Ps 75:5 : 5 Let not your horn be lifted up: let no more words of pride come from your outstretched necks.
  • Isa 22:12 : 12 And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief:
  • 1 Kgs 21:27 : 27 Hearing these words, Ahab, in great grief, put haircloth on his flesh and went without food, sleeping in haircloth, and going about quietly.
  • Job 30:19 : 19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.
  • 1 Sam 2:10 : 10 Those who make war against the Lord will be broken; against them he will send his thunder from heaven: the Lord will be judge of the ends of the earth, he will give strength to his king, lifting up the horn of him on whom the holy oil has been put.
  • Ps 75:10 : 10 By him will all the horns of the sinners be cut off; but the horns of the upright will be lifted up.

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