Let him bury his face in the dust--perhaps there is still hope.
Cross References
Job 16:15I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.
Job 40:4"Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.
Jeremiah 31:17So there is hope for your future, declares the LORD, and your children will return to their own land.
Treasury of Scripture
He puts his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
putteth
2 Chronicles 33:12
And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
Job 40:4
Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
Job 42:5,6
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee…
if
Joel 2:14
Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?
Jonah 3:9
Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
Zephaniah 2:3
Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.