KJV King James Version
He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Job 30:19
He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.
WEB World English Bible
He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.
ASV American Standard Version
He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.
Surrounding context — Job 30
16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
18 By the great force [of my disease] is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me [not].
21 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride [upon it], and dissolvest my substance.
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Job 9:31Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.Job 42:6Wherefore I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes.Genesis 18:27And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which [am but] dust and ashes:Psalm 69:14Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.Psalm 69:1-2To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, [A Psalm] of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto [my] soul.Jeremiah 38:6Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that [was] in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon [there was] no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.Job 2:8And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
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