Job 42:6

Conservative English Version

That's why I hate myself and sit here in dust and ashes to show my sorrow.

Cross References

Genesis 18:27

Abraham answered, "I am nothing more than the dust of the earth. Please forgive me, LORD, for daring to speak to you like this.

1 Kings 21:27

(SEE 21:25)

Ezra 9:6

and prayed: I am much too ashamed to face you, LORD God. Our sins and our guilt have swept over us like a flood that reaches up to the heavens.

Job 2:8

Then Job sat on the ash-heap to show his sorrow. And while he was scraping his sores with a broken piece of pottery,

Job 30:19

I have been thrown in the dirt and now am dirt myself.

Job 42:5

I heard about you from others; now I have seen you with my own eyes.

Job 42:7

The LORD said to Eliphaz: What my servant Job has said about me is true, but I am angry at you and your two friends for not telling the truth.

Job 9:31

God would throw me into a pit of stinking slime, leaving me disgusting to my clothes.

Psalm 51:17

The way to please you is to feel sorrow deep in our hearts. This is the kind of sacrifice you won't refuse.

Isaiah 5:5

Now I will let you know what I am going to do. I will cut down the hedge and tear down the wall. My vineyard will be trampled and left in ruins.

Isaiah 58:5

Do you think the LORD wants you to give up eating and to act as humble as a bent-over bush? Or to dress in sackcloth and sit in ashes? Is this really what he wants on a day of worship?

Jeremiah 31:19

When we were young, we strayed and sinned, but then we realized what we had done. We are ashamed and disgraced and want to return to you."

Ezekiel 16:63

I will forgive you, but you will think about your sins and be too ashamed to say a word. I, the LORD God, have spoken.

Ezekiel 20:43

Then you will remember your wicked sins, and you will hate yourselves for doing such horrible things. They have made you unacceptable to me,

Ezekiel 36:31

You will remember your evil ways and hate yourselves for what you've done.

Ezekiel 6:9

where they will be prisoners. And when they think of me, they will realize that they disgraced me by rebelling and by worshiping idols. They will hate themselves for the evil things they did,

Daniel 9:3

Then, to show my sorrow, I went without eating and dressed in sackcloth and sat in ashes. I confessed my sins and earnestly prayed to the LORD my God: Our Lord, you are a great and fearsome God, and you faithfully keep your agreement with those who love and obey you.

Leviticus 13:12

But if the disease has run its course and only the scars remain, he will say, "You are clean."

Matthew 11:21

You people of Chorazin are in for trouble! You people of Bethsaida are in for trouble too! If the miracles that took place in your towns had happened in Tyre and Sidon, the people there would have turned to God long ago. They would have dressed in sackcloth and put ashes on their heads.

Luke 10:13

You people of Chorazin are in for trouble! You people of Bethsaida are also in for trouble! If the miracles that took place in your towns had happened in Tyre and Sidon, the people there would have turned to God long ago. They would have dressed in sackcloth and put ashes on their heads.

Joshua 7:6

Joshua and the leaders of Israel tore their clothes and put dirt on their heads to show their sorrow. They lay facedown on the ground in front of the sacred chest until sunset.