Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. {abhor...: or, make me to be abhorred}

Wherefore I abhor {myself}, and repent in dust and ashes.

Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which {am but} dust and ashes:

[To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, {A Psalm} of David.] Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto {my} soul.

Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that {was} in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon {there was} no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire. {of Hammelech: or, of the king}

And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.

Wherefore I abhor {myself}, and repent in dust and ashes.

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which {am but} dust and ashes:

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.