Job 30:19

Job's Final Defense Continued

¹⁸ “By a great force my garment is distorted;
It binds me about as the collar of my coat.
¹⁹ “He has cast me into the mire,
And I have become like dust and ashes.
²⁰ “I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer me;
I stand up, and You turn Your attention against me.

Dust and Ashes

Job

Genesis 18:27

And Abraham replied, “Now behold, I have ventured to speak to the Lord, although I am but dust and ashes.

Job 42:6

Therefore I retract,
And I repent in dust and ashes.”

Job 2:8

And he took a potsherd to scrape himself while he was sitting among the ashes.

Job 9:31

Yet You would plunge me into the pit,
And my own clothes would abhor me.

Psalm 69:1-2

For the choir director; according to Shoshannim. A Psalm of David.
Save me, O God,
For the waters have threatened my life.

Psalm 69:14

Deliver me from the mire and do not let me sink;
May I be delivered from my foes and from the deep waters.

Jeremiah 38:6

Then they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchijah the king’s son, which was in the court of the guardhouse; and they let Jeremiah down with ropes. Now in the cistern there was no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank into the mud.