Job 42:6

Job's Repentance And Restoration

⁵ I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees thee. ⁶ Therefore I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes. ⁷ And it was so, that, after LORD had spoken these words to Job, LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends. For ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Jo

Dust and Ashes

For This Cause

Job

Ezra 9:6

and I said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God, for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.

Job 2:8

And he took a potsherd for him to scrape himself with it, and he sat among the ashes.

Job 30:19

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

1 Kings 21:27

And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

Esther 4:1-3

Now when Mordecai knew all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry.

Job 9:31

yet thou will plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.

Psalm 51:17

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, thou will not despise.

Isaiah 5:5

And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge of it, and it shall be eaten up. I will break down the wall of it, and it shall be trodden down.

Isaiah 58:5

Is such the fast that I have chosen, the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to LORD?

Jeremiah 31:19

Surely after that I was turned back. I repented, and after I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh. I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.

Ezekiel 16:63

that thou may remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more, because of thy shame, when I have forgiven thee all that thou have done, says lord LORD.

Ezekiel 20:43

And there ye shall remember your ways, and all your doings, by which ye have polluted yourselves. And ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.

Ezekiel 36:31

Then ye shall remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good. And ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.

Daniel 9:3

And I set my face to LORD God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

Jonah 3:6-10

And the news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Matthew 11:21

Woe to thee, Chorazin! Woe to thee, Bethsaida! Because if the mighty works that occurred in you occurred in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Luke 10:13

Woe to thee, Chorazin! Woe to thee, Bethsaida! Because if the mighty works were done in Tyre and Sidon, which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

Luke 15:18-19

After rising, I will go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight.

1 Corinthians 15:8-9

and last of all, as to the untimely birth, he also appeared to me.

1 Timothy 1:13-16

the man who was formerly blasphemous, and a persecutor, and an aggressor. But I obtained mercy because I did it being ignorant in unbelief.

James 4:7-10

Be subordinate therefore to God, but resist the devil and he will flee from you.