Job 2:12

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

When they looked from a distance, they could barely recognise him. They wept aloud,  and each man tore his robe and threw dust into the air and on his head.

Cross References

Ezekiel 27:30

Because of you, they raise their voices and cry out bitterly. They throw dust on their heads; they roll in ashes.

Lamentations 2:10

The elders of Daughter Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

Nehemiah 9:1

On the twenty-fourth day of this month  the Israelites assembled; they were fasting, wearing sackcloth, and had put dust on their heads.

Job 1:20

Then Job stood up, tore  his robe, and shaved  his head. He fell to the ground and worshipped,

Joshua 7:6

Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell face down to the ground before the ark of the Lord until evening,  as did the elders of Israel; they all put dust on their heads.

Revelation 18:19

They threw dust on their heads and kept crying out, weeping, and mourning, Woe, woe, the great city, where all those who have ships on the sea became rich from her wealth; for in a single hour she was destroyed.

Job 19:14

My relatives stop coming by, and my close friends have forgotten me.

Esther 4:1

When Mordecai learned all that had occurred,  he tore his clothes,  put on sackcloth and ashes,  went into the middle of the city, and cried loudly and bitterly.

2 Samuel 13:36

Just as he finished speaking, the king’s sons entered and wept loudly. Then the king and all his servants also wept very bitterly.

1 Samuel 30:4

David and the troops with him wept loudly until they had no strength left to weep.

1 Samuel 11:4

When the messengers came to Gibeah,  Saul’s home town, and told the terms to the people, all wept aloud.

Judges 2:4

When the angel of the Lord had spoken these words to all the Israelites, the people wept loudly.

Genesis 27:34

When Esau heard his father’s words, he cried out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, ‘Bless me too, my father! ’

1 Samuel 4:12

That same day, a Benjaminite man ran  from the battle and came to Shiloh. His clothes were torn,  and there was dirt on his head.

Ezra 9:3

When I heard this report, I tore my tunic and robe, pulled out some of the hair from my head and beard, and sat down devastated.