Job 16:15 {16}
Good News Translation
I mourn and wear clothes made of sackcloth, and I sit here in the dust defeated.

Contemporary English Version
and so, in my sorrow I dress in sackcloth and sit in the dust.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have sowed sackcloth upon my skin, and have covered my flesh with ashes.

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I have sowed sackcloth upon my skin, and have covered my flesh with ashes.

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1 Kings 21:27 And when Achab had heard these words, he rent his garments, and put haircloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and slept in sackcloth, and walked with his head cast down.

Isaiah 22:12 And the Lord, the God of hosts, in that day shall call to weeping, and to mourning, to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

defiled my horn

Job 30:19 I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes.

1 Samuel 2:10 The adversaries of the Lord shall fear him: and upon them shall he thunder in the heavens: The Lord shall judge the ends of the earth, and he shall give empire to his king, and shall exalt the horn of his Christ.

Psalm 7:5 Let the enemy pursue my soul, and take it, and tread down my life, on the earth, and bring down my glory to the dust.

Psalm 75:5,10 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not iniquity against God. . . .

Context
Job Decries his Comforters
14He hath torn me with wound upon wound, he hath rushed in upon me like a giant. 15I have sowed sackcloth upon my skin, and have covered my flesh with ashes.16My face is swollen with weeping, and my eyelids are dim.…
Cross References
Genesis 37:34
And tearing his garments, he put on sackcloth, mourning for his son a long time.

1 Samuel 2:1
My heart hath rejoiced in the Lord, and my horn is exalted in my God: my mouth is enlarged over my enemies: because I have joyed in thy salvation.

Job 19:9
He hath stripped me of my glory, and hath taken the crown from my head.

Psalm 7:5
Let the enemy pursue my soul, and take it, and tread down my life, on the earth, and bring down my glory to the dust.

Psalm 69:11
And I made haircloth my garment: and I became a byword to them.

Lamentations 3:29
Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

Additional Translations
I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust.

They overthrew me with fall upon fall: they ran upon me in their might.

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

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

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

I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.

Sackcloth I have sewed on my skin, And have rolled in the dust my horn.
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