Job 30:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

[God] has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

American Standard Version (1901)

He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

Common English Bible

He hurls me into mud; I’m a cliché, like dust and ashes.

Catholic Public Domain Version

I have been treated like dirt, and I have been turned into embers and ashes.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

I am compared to dirt: and am likened to embers and ashes.

Job 30:19 Cross References

Genesis 18:27

Abraham answered, “Let me take it upon myself to speak to my lord, I who am but dust and ashes.

Job 2:8

Job took a potsherd with which to scrape himself and sat among the ashes.

Job 42:6

therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.”

Job 9:31

yet you will plunge me into filth, and my own clothes will abhor me.

Psalm 69:14

rescue me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters.

Jeremiah 38:6

So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. Now there was no water in the cistern but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.