15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
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And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.
And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 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 afflicted, according as the temper or the circumstances are; but Job found help by neither, Job 16:6. 1. Sometimes giving vent to grief gives ease; but, “ Though I speak ” (says Job), “ my grief is not assu…
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