Devine Scripture

Job 16:15

Job chapter 16 · verse 15 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust.

Context

v.14He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant.

v.15This passage

v.16My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Isaiah 22:12

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

  • Psalms 75:10

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

  • 1 Samuel 2:10

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

  • Psalms 75:5

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

  • Psalms 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

  • 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.