Job 30:19 “He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.”

Job 30:19

He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

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

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

Bible in Basic English

Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

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Cross references

“cast me”

Job 9:31 Jeremiah 38:6 Psalm 69:1 Psalm 69:2

Job 9:31 · BSB

then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.

Jeremiah 38:6 · BSB

So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremia…

Psalm 69:1 · BSB

Save me, O God, for the waters are up to my neck.

Psalm 69:2 · BSB

I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me.

“dust”

Job 42:6 Genesis 18:27 Job 2:8

Job 42:6 · BSB

Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes.”

Genesis 18:27 · BSB

Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—

Job 2:8 · BSB

And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.

Also

Psalm 69:14

Psalm 69:14 · BSB

Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

18With great force He grasps my garment; He seizes me by the collar of my tunic.

20I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me.

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