Job 16:15

Authorized King James Version (1611)

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 37:34 : 34 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
  • Ps 7:5 : 5 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take [it]; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.
  • Ps 75:5 : 5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak [not with] a stiff neck.
  • Isa 22:12 : 12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
  • 1 Kgs 21:27 : 27 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
  • Job 30:19 : 19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
  • 1 Sam 2:10 : 10 The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.
  • Ps 75:10 : 10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; [but] the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

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