Job 42:6

Job's Repentance And Restoration

⁵ By the hearing of the ear I heard Thee, And now mine eye hath seen Thee. ⁶ Therefore do I loathe it, And I have repented on dust and ashes. ⁷ And it cometh to pass after Jehovah's speaking these words unto Job, that Jehovah saith unto Eliphaz the Temanite, 'Burned hath Mine anger against thee, and against thy two friends, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.

Dust and Ashes

For This Cause

Job

Ezra 9:6

and say, 'O my God, I have been ashamed, and have blushed to lift up, O my God, my face unto Thee, for our iniquities have increased over the head, and our guilt hath become great unto the heavens.

Job 2:8

And he taketh to him a potsherd to scrape himself with it, and he is sitting in the midst of the ashes.

Job 30:19

Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

1 Kings 21:27

And it cometh to pass, at Ahab's hearing these words, that he rendeth his garments, and putteth sackcloth on his flesh, and fasteth, and lieth in sackcloth, and goeth gently.

Esther 4:1-3

And Mordecai hath known all that hath been done, and Mordecai rendeth his garments, and putteth on sackcloth and ashes, and goeth forth into the midst of the city and crieth -- a cry loud and bitter,

Job 9:31

Then in corruption Thou dost dip me, And my garments have abominated me.

Job 40:3-4

And Job answereth Jehovah, and saith: --

Psalm 51:17

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A heart broken and bruised, O God, Thou dost not despise.

Isaiah 5:5

And now, pray, let me cause you to know, That which I am doing to my vineyard, To turn aside its hedge, And it hath been for consumption, To break down its wall, And it hath been for a treading-place.

Isaiah 58:5

Like this is the fast that I choose? The day of a man's afflicting his soul? To bow as a reed his head, And sackcloth and ashes spread out? This dost thou call a fast, And a desirable day -- to Jehovah?

Jeremiah 31:19

For after my turning back I repented, And after my being instructed I struck on the thigh, I have been ashamed, I have also blushed, For I have borne the reproach of my youth.

Ezekiel 16:63

So that thou dost remember, And thou hast been ashamed, And there is not to thee any more an opening of the mouth because of thy shame, In My receiving atonement for thee, For all that thou hast done, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'

Ezekiel 20:43

And ye have remembered there your ways, And all your doings, In which ye have been defiled, And ye have been loathsome in your own faces, For all your evils that ye have done.

Ezekiel 36:31

And ye have remembered your ways that are evil, And your doings that are not good, And have been loathsome in your own faces, For your iniquities, and for your abominations.

Daniel 9:3

and I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.

Jonah 3:6-10

seeing the word doth come unto the king of Nineveh, and he riseth from his throne, and removeth his honourable robe from off him, and spreadeth out sackcloth, and sitteth on the ashes,

Matthew 11:21

'Woe to thee, Chorazin! woe to thee, Bethsaida! because, if in Tyre and Sidon had been done the mighty works that were done in you, long ago in sackcloth and ashes they had reformed;

Luke 10:13

'Woe to thee, Chorazin; woe to thee, Bethsaida; for if in Tyre and Sidon had been done the mighty works that were done in you, long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes, they had reformed;

Luke 15:18-19

having risen, I will go on unto my father, and will say to him, Father, I did sin -- to the heaven, and before thee,

1 Corinthians 15:8-9

And last of all -- as to the untimely birth -- he appeared also to me,

1 Timothy 1:13-16

who before was speaking evil, and persecuting, and insulting, but I found kindness, because, being ignorant, I did it in unbelief,

James 4:7-10

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;