Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

He cast me to the clay; I shall become like as dust and ashes.

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

Holman Bible

He throws me into the mud,
and I have become like dust and ashes.

International Standard Version

"He tossed me into the mire; I've become like dust and ashes.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

Amplified


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

Bible in Basic English

Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

Darby Translation

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

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

I am even as it were clay, and am become like ashes and dust.

NET Bible

He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

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

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
He hath cast
ירא ירה 
Yarah 
Usage: 83

me into the mire
חמר 
Chomer 
Usage: 31

and I am become like
משׁל 
Mashal 
Usage: 16

עפר 
`aphar 
Usage: 110

References

Hastings

Morish

Smith

Context Readings

Job's Final Defense Continued

18 By the multitude of power my clothing will be disguised: it will gird me about as the mouth of my coat 19 He cast me to the clay; I shall become like as dust and ashes. 20 I shall cry to thee and thou wilt not answer me: I stood up and thou wilt not attend to me.

Cross References

Genesis 18:27

And Abraham will answer and say, Behold now, I have undertaken to speak to my Lord, and I dust and ashes.

Job 42:6

For this, I shall melt away, and I lamented in dust and ashes.

Job 2:8

And he will take to him a pot sherd to scrape himself with it, and he will sit in the midst of the ashes.

Job 9:31

Then thou wilt immerse me in the ditch, and my garments abhorred me.

Psalm 69:1-2

To the overseer upon the lilies; to David. Save me, O God, for the waters came even to the soul.

Psalm 69:14

Deliver me from the mire and I shall not sink: I shall be delivered from those hating me, and from the depths of waters.

Jeremiah 38:6

And they will take Jeremiah and send him to the pit of Malchiah son of the king which was in the enclosure of the prison: and they will cast Jeremiah with cords, and in the pit no water but mud: and Jeremiah will sink in the mud.

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