Job 30:19
Good News Translation
He throws me down in the mud; I am no better than dirt.

New Revised Standard Version
He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

Contemporary English Version
I have been thrown in the dirt and now am dirt myself.

New American Bible
He has cast me into the mire; I have become like dust and ashes.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes.

cast me

Job 9:31 Yet thou shalt plunge me in filth, and my garments shall abhor me.

Psalm 69:1,2 Unto the end, for them that shall be changed; for David. [2] Save me, O God: for the waters are come in even unto my soul. . . .

Jeremiah 38:6 Then they took Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon of Melchias the son of Amelech, which was in the entry of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah by ropes into the dungeon, wherein there was no water, but mire. And Jeremiah sunk into the mire.

dust

Job 2:8 And he took a potsherd and scraped the corrupt matter, sitting on a dunghill.

Job 42:6 Therefore I reprehend myself, and do penance in dust and ashes.

Genesis 18:27 And Abraham answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes.

Context
Job's Prosperity Becomes Calamity
18With the multitude of them my garment is consumed, and they have girded me about, as with the collar of my coat. 19I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes.20I cry to thee, and thou hearest me not: I stand up, and thou dost not regard me.…
Cross References
Genesis 18:27
And Abraham answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes.

Psalm 69:2
I stick fast in the mire of the deep and there is no sure standing. I am come into the depth of the sea, and a tempest hath overwhelmed me.

Psalm 69:14
Draw me out of the mire, that I may not stick fast: deliver me from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

Job 30:18
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