Job 16:15

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I have sewn sackcloth over my skin and buried my strength in the dust.

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  • Gen 37:34 : 34 Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son for many days.
  • Ps 7:5 : 5 if I have repaid my friend with evil or have plundered my enemy without cause,
  • Ps 75:5 : 5 I said to the arrogant, ‘Do not boast’; and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn.’
  • Isa 22:12 : 12 In that day the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, called you to weeping, wailing, shaving your heads, and wearing sackcloth.
  • 1 Kgs 21:27 : 27 When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He lay in sackcloth and went about meekly.
  • Job 30:19 : 19 He has cast me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.
  • 1 Sam 2:10 : 10 'The LORD will shatter His adversaries; He will thunder against them from heaven. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to His king and exalt the horn of His anointed.'
  • Ps 75:10 : 10 But as for me, I will declare this forever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 16 My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death.

  • Job 30:18-19
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    18 With great force my garment is disfigured; it binds me like the collar of my tunic.

    19 He has cast me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.

  • 5 My body is clothed with worms and scabs; my skin cracks and festers.

  • Job 16:12-14
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    12 I was at ease, but he shattered me; he seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target.

    13 His archers surround me and pierce my kidneys without mercy; he pours my gall on the ground.

    14 He breaks me with breach upon breach; he rushes at me like a warrior.

  • 6 Therefore, I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.

  • 9 He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.

  • 16 He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has made me cower in ashes.

  • 11 I wept and fasted, but it brought reproach on me.

  • 4 He has worn away my flesh and my skin; He has broken my bones.

  • Job 16:7-10
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    7 Surely now, God has worn me out; you have devastated my entire household.

    8 You have bound me up as a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.

    9 His anger tears at me, and he hates me; he gnashes his teeth at me. My adversary sharpens his eyes against me.

    10 They gape at me with their mouths; they strike my cheeks in scorn and together they conspire against me.

  • 31 You would plunge me into a pit, and even my clothes would abhor me.

  • 16 And now my soul is poured out within me; days of suffering seize hold of me.

  • 15 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts within me.

  • 5 My heart is afflicted and withered like grass, for I forget to eat my food.

  • 11 He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

  • 6 My wounds are foul and festering because of my foolishness.

  • Lam 1:13-14
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    13 From on high he sent fire; it burns in my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.

    14 My transgressions were bound into a yoke; by his hands they were fastened together. They were laid on my neck; he has made my strength fail. The Lord has given me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.

  • 9 All day long my enemies taunt me; those who ridicule me use my name as a curse.

  • Ps 35:13-14
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    13 But when they were ill, I wore sackcloth and humbled myself with fasting. My prayer returned to me unanswered.

    14 I behaved as if they were my friend or brother; I mourned as one mourning for a mother, bowed down in sorrow.

  • Job 30:30-31
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    30 My skin grows black and peels off, and my bones burn with fever.

    31 My harp is turned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.

  • 15 You have made us a byword among the nations, a shaking of heads among the peoples.

  • Job 17:6-7
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    6 He has made me a byword among the peoples, and I have become one at whom they spit.

    7 My eyes have grown dim from grief, and all my limbs are like a shadow.

  • 10 Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress. My eyes grow weak with sorrow, as do my soul and my body.

  • 8 Mourn like a young woman dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.

  • 20 My intercessors are my friends; my eye drips to God.

  • 3 I clothe the heavens with darkness and make sackcloth their covering.

  • 10 I am mute; I will not open my mouth because You have done this.

  • 15 What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and He has done this. I will walk humbly all my years because of this anguish of my soul.

  • 15 If I am wicked, woe to me; if I am righteous, I dare not lift my head, filled with shame and seeing my misery.

  • 10 It would still be my comfort— I would even exult in the midst of unrelenting pain— for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • 36 Surely I would wear it on my shoulder, I would put it on like a crown.

  • 1 My spirit is broken, my days have faded away, and the grave is ready for me.

  • 1 I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of His wrath.

  • 14 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hands?

  • 19 Woe to me because of my brokenness! My wound is incurable. Yet I said, 'This is my suffering, and I must endure it.'

  • 14 For I am stricken all day long and chastened every morning.

  • 4 My spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart is appalled inside me.

  • 20 If I have sinned, what have I done to you, you who see everything we do? Why have you made me your target? Have I become a burden to you?

  • 29 Let him put his mouth in the dust—there may yet be hope.

  • 28 I walk in mourning without sunlight; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.