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Job Chapter 16 verse 15 Holy Bible

ASV Job 16:15

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust.
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BBE Job 16:15

I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.
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DARBY Job 16:15

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and rolled my horn in the dust.
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KJV Job 16:15

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
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WBT Job 16:15

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
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WEB Job 16:15

I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, And have thrust my horn in the dust.
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YLT Job 16:15

Sackcloth I have sewed on my skin, And have rolled in the dust my horn.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 15. - I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin. Another transition. Job turns to the consideration of how he has acted under his severe afflictions. In the first place, he has put on sackcloth, not for a time merely, as ordinary mourners do, but for a permanency, so that he may be said to have sewn it to his skin. There is, perhaps, also an allusion to the adhesion of the garment to his many sores. And have defiled my horn in the dust. "My horn" is equivalent to "my pride," "my dignity." Job, when he left his state, and put on sackcloth, and "sat down among the ashes" (Job 2:8), denuded himself of his honour and dignity, and as it were trailed them in the dust

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(15) I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin.--Referring, probably, to the state of his skin, which had become hard and rugged as sackcloth. As the second half of the verse must be figurative, there seems to be no reason to understand the first half otherwise.