Why I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. Treasury of Scripture I Job 9:31 Yet shall you plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me. Job 40:3,4 Then Job answered the LORD, and said... Ezra 9:6 And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head... Psalm 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. Isaiah 5:5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up... Jeremiah 31:19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote on my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even confounded... Ezekiel 16:63 That you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more because of your shame... Ezekiel 20:43 And there shall you remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein you have been defiled... Ezekiel 36:31 Then shall you remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good... Luke 15:18,19 I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before you... 1 Corinthians 15:8,9 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time... 1 Timothy 1:13-16 Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief... James 4:7-10 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you... repent Job 2:8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself with; and he sat down among the ashes. Job 30:19 He has cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. 1 Kings 21:27 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted... Esther 4:1-3 When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes... Isaiah 58:5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush... Daniel 9:3 And I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: Jonah 3:6-10 For word came to the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth... Matthew 11:21 Woe to you, Chorazin! woe to you, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon... Luke 10:13 Woe to you, Chorazin! woe to you, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you...
Context Job Submits Himself to God
1Then Job answered the LORD, and said, 2I know that you can do every thing, and that no thought can be withheld from you. 3Who is he that hides counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. 4Hear, I beseech you, and I will speak: I will demand of you, and declare you to me. 5I have heard of you by the hearing of the ear: but now my eye sees you. 6Why I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
Wherefore I abhor myself , And repent in dust and ashes.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore I reprehend myself, and do penance in dust and ashes.
Darby Bible Translation
Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
King James Bible
Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Young's Literal Translation
Therefore do I loathe it, And I have repented on dust and ashes.
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