He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.
(179) The verb rendered “covered,” is found only here, and is translated “fed” by the Sept. and Vulg. ; “tumbled” or laid low, by the Targ.; and “besprinkled,” by the Syr. As he had said, that his food had been as it were grit, he could not have said that he was fed with ashes. Therefore the arg. or the Syr. is the most suitable, that God had laid him low in ashes, Tr that he had besprinkled or covered him with ashes. — Ed 