Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

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 King James verseion

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

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 With all their power have they changed my garment, and girded me therewith, as it were with a coat. 19 I am even as it were clay, and am become like ashes and dust. 20 When I cry unto thee, thou doest not hear me: and though I stand before thee, yet thou regardest me not.

Cross References

Genesis 18:27

And Abraham answered and said, "Behold, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, and yet am but dust and ashes.

Job 42:6

Wherefore I give mine own self the blame, and take repentance in the dust and ashes."

Job 2:8

so that he sat upon the ground in the ashes, and scraped off the filth of his sores with a potsherd.

Job 9:31

yet shouldest thou dip me in the mire, and mine own clothes should defile me.

Psalm 69:1-2

{To the Chanter, upon Shoshannim, of David} Save me, O God; for the waters are come in, even unto my soul.

Psalm 69:14

Take me out of the mire, that I sink not; Oh let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

Jeremiah 38:6

Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that dwelt in the fore entry of the prison. And they let down Jeremiah with cords into a dungeon, where there was no water, but mire.

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