Job 42:6

Job's Repentance And Restoration

⁵ I've heard you with my ears; and now I've seen you with my eyes. ⁶ As a result, I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes." ⁷ After these words had been spoken by the LORD to Job, the LORD spoke to Eliphaz from Teman: "My anger is burning against you along with your two friends, since you haven't spoken correctly about me, as did my servant Job.

Dust and Ashes

For This Cause

Job

Ezra 9:6

and said,

Job 2:8

Job took a broken piece of pottery to scrape himself while sitting among the ashes.

Job 30:19

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

1 Kings 21:27

Nevertheless, as soon as Ahab heard this message, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He even slept in sackcloth and wandered around meekly.

Esther 4:1-3

When Mordecai learned all that had been done, he tore his garments and clothed himself in sackcloth and ashes. He went into the middle of the city and cried out with a loud and bitter cry.

Job 9:31

you'll still drop me into the Pit, and my own clothes will despise me.

Job 40:3-4

Then Job replied to the LORD. He said:

Psalm 51:17

True sacrifice to God is a broken spirit. A broken and chastened heart, God, you will not despise.

Isaiah 5:5

"Now, let me tell you, won't you please, what I'm going to do to my vineyard. "I'm going to take away its protective hedge, and it will be devoured; I'll break down its wall, and it will be trampled.

Isaiah 58:5

"Is this the kind of fast that I have chosen, merely a day for a person to humble himself? Is it merely for bowing down one's head like a bulrush, for lying on sackcloth and ashes? Is this what you call a fast, an acceptable day to the LORD?

Jeremiah 31:19

Indeed, after I turned away, then I repented. And after I came to understand, I slapped my forehead. I was both ashamed and humiliated because I bear the disgrace of my youth.'"

Ezekiel 16:63

Then you will remember, be ashamed, and you won't open your mouth anymore due to humiliation when I will have made atonement for you for everything that you've done,' declares the Lord GOD."

Ezekiel 20:43

You'll remember all your practices and evil actions by which you've become defiled. You'll loathe yourselves because of all the evil things you've done.

Ezekiel 36:31

Then you'll remember your lifestyles and practices that were not good. You'll hate yourselves as you look at your own iniquities and loathsome practices.

Daniel 9:3

"So I turned my attention to the Lord God, seeking him in prayer and supplication, accompanied with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

Jonah 3:6-10

When the message reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, removed his royal garments, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat down in ashes.

Matthew 11:21

"How terrible it will be for you, Chorazin! How terrible it will be for you, Bethsaida! Because if the miracles that happened in you had taken place in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Luke 10:13

"How terrible it will be for you, Chorazin! How terrible it will be for you, Bethsaida! If the miracles that happened in you had taken place in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

Luke 15:18-19

I will get up, go to my father, and say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and you.

1 Corinthians 15:8-9

and finally he was seen by me, as though I were born abnormally late.

1 Timothy 1:13-16

In the past I was a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man. But I received mercy because I acted ignorantly in my unbelief,

James 4:7-10

Therefore, submit yourselves to God. Resist the Devil, and he will run away from you.