Job 16:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and have laid my strength in the dust.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And defiled my horn in the dust.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ I have sewed sackcloth over my skin [as a sign of mourning] and have defiled my horn (my insignia of strength) in the dust.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ I’ve sewed rough cloth over my skin and buried my dignity in the dust.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ He has cut me with wound after wound. He has rushed upon me like a giant.

Job 16:15 Cross References

Genesis 37:34

Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.

Psalm 7:5

then let the enemy pursue and overtake me, trample my life to the ground, and lay my soul in the dust. Selah

Isaiah 22:12

On that day the Lord God of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and putting on sackcloth,

Psalm 75:5

do not lift up your horn on high or speak with insolent neck.”

1 Kings 21:27

When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth over his bare flesh; he fasted, lay in the sackcloth, and went about dejectedly.

Psalm 75:10

All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

Job 30:19

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

1 Samuel 2:10

The Lord! His adversaries will be shattered; the Most High will thunder in heaven. The Lord will judge the ends of the earth; he will give strength to his king and exalt the power of his anointed.”

1 Samuel 2:1

Hannah prayed and said, “My heart exults in the Lord; my strength is exalted in my God. My mouth derides my enemies because I rejoice in your victory.

Job 19:9

He has stripped my glory from me and taken the crown from my head.

Psalm 69:11

When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.

Lamentations 3:29

to put one’s mouth to the dust (there may yet be hope),