Job 16:15 {16}
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I have sowed sackcloth upon my skin, and have covered my flesh with ashes.

sewed

1 Kings 21:27 And when Achab had heard these words, he rent his garments, and put haircloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and slept in sackcloth, and walked with his head cast down.

Isaiah 22:12 And the Lord, the God of hosts, in that day shall call to weeping, and to mourning, to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

defiled my horn

Job 30:19 I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes.

1 Samuel 2:10 The adversaries of the Lord shall fear him: and upon them shall he thunder in the heavens: The Lord shall judge the ends of the earth, and he shall give empire to his king, and shall exalt the horn of his Christ.

Psalm 7:5 Let the enemy pursue my soul, and take it, and tread down my life, on the earth, and bring down my glory to the dust.

Psalm 75:5,10 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not iniquity against God. . . .

Context
Job Decries his Comforters
14He hath torn me with wound upon wound, he hath rushed in upon me like a giant. 15I have sowed sackcloth upon my skin, and have covered my flesh with ashes.16My face is swollen with weeping, and my eyelids are dim.…
Cross References
Genesis 37:34
And tearing his garments, he put on sackcloth, mourning for his son a long time.

1 Samuel 2:1
My heart hath rejoiced in the Lord, and my horn is exalted in my God: my mouth is enlarged over my enemies: because I have joyed in thy salvation.

Job 19:9
He hath stripped me of my glory, and hath taken the crown from my head.

Psalm 7:5
Let the enemy pursue my soul, and take it, and tread down my life, on the earth, and bring down my glory to the dust.

Psalm 69:11
And I made haircloth my garment: and I became a byword to them.

Lamentations 3:29
Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

Lexicon
I have sewn
תָּ֭פַרְתִּי (tā·p̄ar·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 8609: To sew together

sackcloth
שַׂ֣ק (śaq)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8242: A mesh, coarse loose cloth, sacking, a bag

over
עֲלֵ֣י (‘ă·lê)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

my skin;
גִלְדִּ֑י (ḡil·dî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1539: The, skin

I have buried
וְעֹלַ֖לְתִּי (wə·‘ō·lal·tî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5953: To effect thoroughly, to glean, to overdo, maltreat, be saucy to, pain, impose

my horn
קַרְנִֽי׃ (qar·nî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 7161: A horn, a flask, cornet, an elephant's tooth, a corner, a peak, a ray, power

in the dust.
בֶעָפָ֣ר (ḇe·‘ā·p̄ār)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6083: Dust, clay, earth, mud


Additional Translations
I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

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

They overthrew me with fall upon fall: they ran upon me in their might.

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

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

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

I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.

Sackcloth I have sewed on my skin, And have rolled in the dust my horn.
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