Job 42:6

Job's Repentance And Restoration

⁵ I have given diligent ear unto thee, and now I see thee with mine eyes. ⁶ Wherefore I give mine own self the blame, and take repentance in the dust and ashes." ⁷ Now when the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, he said unto Eliphaz the Temanite, "I am displeased with thee and thy two friends, for ye have not spoken the thing that is right before me, like as my servant Job hath done.

Dust and Ashes

For This Cause

Job

Ezra 9:6

and said, "My God, I am ashamed, and dare not lift up mine eyes unto thee my God: for our wickednesses are grown over our head, and our trespasses are waxen great unto the heaven.

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 30:19

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

1 Kings 21:27

When Ahab heard those words, he rent his clothes and put sackcloth about his flesh and fasted, and lay in sack and went comfortless.

Esther 4:1-3

When Mordecai perceived all that was done, he rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried loud and lamentably,

Job 9:31

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

Job 40:3-4

Job answered the LORD, saying,

Psalm 51:17

The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, shalt thou not despise.

Isaiah 5:5

Well, now I shall tell you how I will do with my vineyard: I will take the hedge from it, that it may perish, and break down the wall, that it may be trodden under foot.

Isaiah 58:5

Should it be such a manner of fast that I should chose? A day that a man should hurt his soul in? Or to bow down his head like a bulrush? Or to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Shouldest thou call this a fast, and a day acceptable unto the LORD?

Jeremiah 31:19

Yea, as soon as thou turnest me, I shall reform myself: and when I understand, I shall smite upon my thigh. For verily I have committed shameful things: O let my youth bear this reproof and confusion.'

Ezekiel 16:63

That thou mayest think upon it, be ashamed, and excuse thine own confusion no more: when I have forgiven thee all that thou hast done, sayeth the LORD God.'"

Ezekiel 20:43

There shall ye call to remembrance your own ways and all your imaginations, wherein ye have been defiled: and ye shall be displeased with your own selves, for all your wickedness, that ye have done.

Ezekiel 36:31

Then shall ye remember your own wicked ways, and your imaginations, which were not good: so that ye shall take displeasure at your own selves, by reason of your sins and abominations.

Daniel 9:3

and I turned me unto God the LORD, for to pray and make mine intercession, with fasting, sack cloth and ashes.

Jonah 3:6-10

And the tidings came unto the king of Nineveh, which arose out of his seat, and did his apparel off and put on sackcloth, and sat him down in ashes.

Matthew 11:21

"Woe be to thee, Chorazsin! Woe be to thee, Bethsaida! for if the miracles, which were showed in you, had been done in Tyre and in Sidon: they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Luke 10:13

"Woe be to thee Chorazsin: woe be to thee Bethsaida. For if the miracles had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while agone repented, sitting in hair and ashes.

Luke 15:18-19

I will arise, and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee,

1 Corinthians 15:8-9

And last of all he was seen of me, as of one that was born out of due time.

1 Timothy 1:13-16

when before I was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and a tyrant. But I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly, through unbelief:

James 4:7-10

Submit yourselves to God, and resist the devil, and he will flee from you.