Job’s Prosperity Becomes Calamity
Job 30:19
In 11 translations
- BSB
- He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.
- KJV
- He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
- WEB
- He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.
- ASV
- He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.
- LSV
- Casting me into mire, || And I have become like dust and ashes.
- YLT
- Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.
- DBY
- He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
- DRC
- I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes.
- GNV
- He hath cast me into the myre, and I am become like ashes and dust.
- JPS
- He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
- LXXE
- And thou hast counted me as clay; my portion is in dust and ashes.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- הֹרָ֥נִי לַחֹ֑מֶר וָ֝אֶתְמַשֵּׁ֗ל כֶּעָפָ֥ר וָאֵֽפֶר׃
- LXX-Br
- Ἥγησαι δέ με ἴσα πηλῷ, ἐν γῇ καὶ σποδῷ μου ἡ μερίς.
Who and where
◆ Job's Trial
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Cross-references most cited first
- Job 9:31then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.
- Psalms 69:14Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters.
- Job 42:6Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”
- Genesis 18:27Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—
- Psalms 69:1–2Save me, O God, for the waters are up to my neck. I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me.
- Jeremiah 38:6So 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…
- Job 2:8And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.
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