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Job 16:15

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

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

My face is foul with weeping,.... On account of the loss of his substance, and especially of his children; at the unkindness of his friends, and over his own corruptions, which he felt working in him,…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

I have sewed sackcloth - I have put on the badges of humiliation and grief; see the notes at Isa 3:24. This was the usual emblem of mourning. In order more deeply to express it, or to make it a…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 16:6-16

Job's complaint is here as bitter as any where in all his discourses, and he is at a stand whether to smother it or to give it vent. Sometimes the one and sometimes the other is a relief to the…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Job 16:15-17

Condition to which the sufferer was brought by these destructive attacks of God in His hostility.