Job 42:6

Job's Repentance And Restoration

⁵ My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you. ⁶ Therefore I retract,
And I repent in dust and ashes.” ⁷ I am angry with you and your two friends, because you did not speak correctly about me, as my servant Job has.

Dust and Ashes

For This Cause

Job

Ezra 9:6

I said, O my God, shame keeps me from lifting up my face (praying) to you (being in your presence), my God: for our sins have increased higher than our heads and our evil-doing has come up to heaven.

Job 2:8

Job took a piece of broken pottery to scratch his sores as he sat in the ashes.

Job 30:19

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

1 Kings 21:27

Elijah finished speaking. Ahab tore his clothes and took them off. He dressed in sackcloth. He refused food (fasted) and slept in the sackcloth. He was gloomy and depressed.

Esther 4:1-3

When Mordecai learned what had been done, he tore his clothes in anguish. Then he dressed in sackcloth, covered his head with ashes, and walked through the city, wailing loudly and bitterly,

Job 9:31

Yet you will plunge me into the pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.

Job 40:3-4

JOB ANSWERED JEHOVAH:

Psalm 51:17

The sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken spirit. O God, you do not despise a broken and sorrowful (contrite) heart.

Isaiah 5:5

Here is what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge and break down the wall that protects it. I will let wild animals eat it and trample it down.

Isaiah 58:5

Is it a fast like this which I choose, a day for a man to humble himself? Is it for bowing one's head like a reed (rush) and for spreading out sackcloth and ashes as a bed? Will you call this a fast, even an acceptable day to Jehovah?

Jeremiah 31:19

We turned away from you. But soon we wanted to return. After you had punished us we hung our heads in grief. We were ashamed and disgraced because we sinned when we were young.'

Ezekiel 16:63

I will forgive all the wrongs you have done, but you will remember them and be too ashamed to open your mouth.' The Lord Jehovah has spoken.

Ezekiel 20:43

There you will remember the way you lived and everything you did to dishonor yourselves. You will be disgusted by every wrong thing that you did.

Ezekiel 36:31

Then you will remember your evil ways and the bad things that you did. You will hate yourselves for all these wicked and disgusting things.

Daniel 9:3

I looked to Jehovah God to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

Jonah 3:6-10

The news reached the king of Nineveh. He left his throne, and took off his robe and covered himself with sackcloth. Then he sat in ashes.

Matthew 11:21

Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! If the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon that were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Luke 10:13

Woe to you Chorazin! Woe to you Bethsaida! If the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

Luke 15:18-19

I will go to my father and say: 'Father I have sinned against God and against you.

1 Corinthians 15:8-9

And last of all I also saw him, as of one with an untimely birth.

1 Timothy 1:13-16

I was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and a violent aggressor. I was shown mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

James 4:7-10

Be subject to God! Resist [Satan] the Devil and he will flee from you.