Job 16:15 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁵ I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn 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

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

Psalm 7:5

Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; Yea, let him tread my life down to the earth, And lay my glory in the dust. Selah

Isaiah 22:12

And in that day did the Lord, the LORD of hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

Psalm 75:5

Lift not up your horn on high; Speak not with a stiff neck.

1 Kings 21:27

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.

Psalm 75:10

All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; But the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.

Job 30:19

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

1 Samuel 2:10

They that strive with the LORD shall be broken to pieces; against them shall he thunder in heaven: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.

1 Samuel 2:1

And Hannah prayed, and said: My heart exulteth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.

Job 19:9

He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.

Psalm 69:11

When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a proverb unto them.

Lamentations 3:29

Let him put his mouth in the dust; if so be there may he hope.