Job 30:19 meaning and explanation

He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.

Job 30:19, Berean Standard Bible

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Job is speaking, answering his friends and addressing God directly in a long lament. In the verses just before, he pictures God seizing him by the collar and hurling him down, so the mud here is not random misfortune but Job's sense of being handled roughly by the God he has served.

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