Job 30:19

Job's Final Defense Continued

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“By the great force [of my disease] my garment (skin) is disfigured and blemished;
It binds about me [choking me] like the collar of my coat.
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“God has cast me into the mire [a swampland of crisis],
And I have become [worthless] like dust and ashes.
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“I cry to You for help, [Lord,] but You do not answer me;
I stand up, but You [only] gaze [indifferently] at me.

Dust and Ashes

Job

Genesis 18:27

Abraham answered, “Now behold, I who am but dust [in origin] and ashes have decided to speak to the Lord.

Job 42:6

“Therefore I retract [my words and hate myself]
And I repent in dust and ashes.”

Job 2:8

And Job took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself, and he sat [down] among the ashes (rubbish heaps).

Job 9:31

You would still plunge me into the pit,
And my own clothes would hate me [and refuse to cover my foul body].

Psalm 69:1-2

Save me, O God,
For the waters have threatened my life [they have come up to my neck].

Psalm 69:14

Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink;
Let me be rescued from those who hate me and from the deep waters.

Jeremiah 38:6

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