Parallel Verses

NET Bible

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

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 great power God grasps my clothing; he binds me like the collar of my tunic. 19 He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes. 20 I cry out to you, but you do not answer me; I stand up, and you only look at me.

Cross References

Genesis 18:27

Then Abraham asked, "Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord (although I am but dust and ashes),

Job 42:6

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

Job 2:8

Job took a shard of broken pottery to scrape himself with while he was sitting among the ashes.

Job 9:31

then you plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me.

Psalm 69:1-2

For the music director; according to the tune of "Lilies;" by David. Deliver me, O God, for the water has reached my neck.

Psalm 69:14

Rescue me from the mud! Don't let me sink! Deliver me from those who hate me, from the deep water!

Jeremiah 38:6

So the officials took Jeremiah and put him in the cistern of Malkijah, one of the royal princes, that was in the courtyard of the guardhouse. There was no water in the cistern, only mud. So when they lowered Jeremiah into the cistern with ropes he sank in the mud.

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