Job 16:15-17

The Voice

Job in his despair and frustration responds as he and his friends have been taught by previous generations to display grief: by donning sackcloth and covering the head with dust to show devastation, as if everything has been lost even to the point of death.

¹⁵Job: Well, I have sewed the sackcloth to my very skin
        and buried my mighty forehead in the dirt.
¹⁶    My face, red and hot, boils over in tears;
        the shadow of darkness lies heavy on my eyelids,
¹⁷    No matter that my hands are free of violence,
        and my prayer is pure.