Job 16:15

Everything Was Going Well

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“He attacks me, making wound after wound;
He runs at me like a warrior.
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“I have sewed sackcloth over my skin [as a sign of mourning]
And have defiled my horn (symbol of strength) in the dust.
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“My face is red and swollen with weeping,
And on my eyelids is the shadow of death [my eyes are dimmed],

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Psalm 7:5

Let the enemy pursue me and overtake me;
And let him trample my life to the ground
And lay my honor in the dust. Selah.

Psalm 75:10

All the horns of the wicked He will cut off,
But the horns of the righteous will be lifted up.

Genesis 37:34

So Jacob tore his clothes [in grief], put on sackcloth and mourned many days for his son.

1 Samuel 2:10

“The adversaries of the Lord will be broken to pieces;
He will thunder against them in the heavens,
The Lord will judge the ends of the earth;
And He will give strength to His king,
And will exalt the horn (strength) of His anointed.”

1 Kings 21:27

Now when Ahab heard these words [of Elijah], he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and fasted, and he lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly (mourning).

Job 30:19

“God has cast me into the mire [a swampland of crisis],
And I have become [worthless] like dust and ashes.

Psalm 75:5

‘Do not lift up your [defiant and aggressive] horn on high,
Do not speak with a stiff neck.’”

Isaiah 22:12

Therefore in that day the Lord God of hosts called you to weeping, to mourning,
To shaving the head and to wearing sackcloth [in humiliation].