Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

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

Julia Smith Translation

He cast me to the clay; I shall become like as 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 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 great force of my disease my clothing is exposed; it binds me about like the mouth of my coat. 19 He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes. 20 I cried to You, and You did not hear me; I stood up, and You did not consider me.

Cross References

Genesis 18:27

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak to Jehovah, who am but dust and ashes.

Job 42:6

Therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

Job 2:8

And he took a broken piece of pottery to scrape himself with. And he sat down among the ashes.

Job 9:31

yet You will plunge me into the ditch and my own clothes shall despise me.

Psalm 69:1-2

To the Chief Musician. Concerning the Lilies. A Psalm of David. Save me, O God! for the waters have come in on my soul.

Psalm 69:14

Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink; let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.

Jeremiah 38:6

And they took Jeremiah and threw him into the pit of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, which was in the court of the prison. And they let Jeremiah down with ropes. And there was no water in the pit, only mud. So Jeremiah sank into the mud.

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