Job 16:15 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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 rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

1 Kings 21:27

And when Ahab heard those words, he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted and lay in sackcloth, and went about dejectedly.

Job 19:9

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

Job 30:19

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

Psalm 69:11

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

Psalm 7:5

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

Psalm 75:10

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

Psalm 75:5

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

Isaiah 22:12

In that day the Lord God of hosts called to weeping and mourning, to baldness and girding with sackcloth;

Lamentations 3:29

let him put his mouth in the dust— there may yet be hope;

1 Samuel 2:1

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

1 Samuel 2:10

The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; against them he 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.”