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Job 2:8
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Then Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself while he sat among the ashes.
He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
And he took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in the ashes.
Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself, and he sat in ashes in misery.
Job took a shard of broken pottery to scrape himself with while he was sitting among the ashes.
And Job took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself, and he sat [down] among the ashes (rubbish heaps).
And Job took a piece of pottery to scrape himself while he was sitting in the ashes.
He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
And he tooke a potsharde to scrape him, and he sate downe among the ashes.
And he took a potsherd to scrape himself while he was sitting among the ashes.
And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.
He took a piece of a broken pot to scratch himself and sat down in the pile of ashes.
And he took a potsherd to scrape himself with; and he sat among the ashes.
Job sat on the pile of ashes where he was mourning and used a piece of broken pottery to scrape his sores.
And he took a potsherd to scrape himself with it; and he sat down upon ashes.
Job went and sat by the garbage dump and took a piece of broken pottery to scrape his sores.
So he took for himself a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and he sat in the midst of the ashes.
And he took a broken piece of pottery with which to scrape himself. And he sat down among the ashes.
so that he sat vpon the grounde in the asshes, and scraped of the etter off his sores with a potsherde.
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself therewith; and he sat among the ashes.
And he took a broken bit of a pot, and, seated in the dust, was rubbing himself with the sharp edge of it.
And he toke a potsharde to scrape hym: and he sat downe among the asshes.
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself therewith; and he sat among the ashes.
And hee tooke him a potsheard to scrape himselfe withall; and hee sate downe among the ashes.
And he took a potsherd to scrape away the discharge, and sat upon a dung-heap outside the city.
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat among the ashes.
which Joob schauyde the quytere with a schelle, `and sat in the dunghil.
And he took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself therewith; and he sat among the ashes.
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself with [it]; and he sat down among the ashes.
And he took for himself a potsherd with which to scrape himself while he sat in the midst of the ashes.
Job scraped his skin with a piece of broken pottery as he sat among the ashes.
Job took a piece of a broken pot to try to cut off the sores while he sat among the ashes.
Job took a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and sat among the ashes.
And he took him a potsherd, to scrape himself therewith; he being seated in the midst of ashes.
And he took a potsherd and scraped the corrupt matter, sitting on a dunghill.
And he took a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and sat among the ashes.
And he taketh to him a potsherd to scrape himself with it, and he is sitting in the midst of the ashes.
And he took a potsherd to scrape himself while he was sitting among the ashes.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
took him: Job 19:14-17, Psalms 38:5, Psalms 38:7, Luke 16:20, Luke 16:21
he sat: Job 42:6, 2 Samuel 13:19, Isaiah 61:3, Ezekiel 27:30, Jonah 3:6, Matthew 11:21
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 2:8 - the poor 1 Kings 20:41 - the ashes away Esther 4:1 - with ashes Job 7:5 - flesh Job 30:19 - dust Psalms 38:3 - soundness Psalms 41:8 - An evil disease Psalms 113:7 - needy Isaiah 1:6 - the sole Isaiah 3:26 - shall sit Isaiah 47:1 - down Isaiah 58:5 - to spread Lamentations 3:16 - covered me with ashes Micah 1:10 - roll Matthew 8:32 - the whole Mark 5:5 - crying Revelation 16:2 - a noisome
Cross-References
The Lord made a garden in a place called Eden, which was in the east, and he put the man there.
The Lord God placed all kinds of beautiful trees and fruit trees in the garden. Two other trees were in the middle of the garden. One of the trees gave life—the other gave the power to know the difference between right and wrong.
Then God put winged creatures at the entrance to the garden and a flaming, flashing sword to guard the way to the life-giving tree.
But Cain had to go far from the Lord and live in the Land of Wandering, which is east of Eden.
This happened before the Lord had destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. And when Lot looked around, he saw there was plenty of water in the Jordan Valley. All the way to Zoar the valley was as green as the garden of the Lord or the land of Egypt.
The Assyrian kings before me destroyed the towns of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and everyone from Eden who lived in Telassar. What good did their gods do them?
Though Zion is in ruins, the Lord will bring comfort, and the city will be as lovely as the garden of Eden that he provided. Then Zion will celebrate; it will be thankful and sing joyful songs.
You also did business with merchants from the cities of Haran, Canneh, Eden, Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad,
You lived in the garden of Eden and wore jewelry made of brightly colored gems and precious stones. They were all set in gold and were ready for you on the day you were born.
This tree will crash to the ground, and I will send it to the world below. Then the nations of the earth will tremble. The trees from Eden and the choice trees from Lebanon are now in the world of the dead, and they will be comforted when this tree falls.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal,.... His mouth was shut, his lips were silent, not one murmuring and repining word came from him, amidst all this anguish and misery he must be in; much less anything that looked like cursing God and blaspheming him, as some are said to do, because of their pains and their sores,
Revelation 16:11; but Job bore his with the utmost patience; he took a piece of a broken pot, which perhaps lay in the ashes among which he sat, and scraped himself with it; either as some think to allay the itching, or rather to remove the purulent matter that ran from his boils; which he used instead of linen rags to wipe them with, having no surgeon to come near him, to mollify his ulcers with ointment, to supple them with oil, and lay healing plasters upon them; there were none to do any of these things for him; his maids and his servants, and even his wife, stood at some distance from him; the smell of him might be so nauseous, that it was intolerable, he was obliged to do what was done himself, which is here mentioned; though it seems something strange and unnatural, considering his case; Schmidt thinks that this scraping was done by him as a rite and ceremony used by mourners in those times and countries, and which Job would not omit though his body was full of sores:
and he sat down among the ashes; which was often done in cases of mourning and humiliation, see Jonah 3:6; and which Job did to humble himself under the mighty hand of God upon him; whether these ashes were outside or inside the house is not certain; some think they were outside, and that he had no house to dwell in, nor bed to lie on, nor couch to sit upon, and therefore was obliged to do as he did; but the contrary is evident from Job 7:13; others say, that his disease being the leprosy, he was obliged to sit alone and outside; but it is not certain that that was his disease; and besides, the law concerning lepers did not as yet exist; and had it, it would not have been binding on Job, who was not of the Israelitish nation: the vulgar notion that Job sat upon a dunghill outside the city has no other foundation than the Septuagint version of this passage, which is a wrong one; for his sitting in ashes, there might be a reason in nature, and it might be chosen on account of his disease; for ashes are a drier, and an abstersive of ulcers, and Galen f says they are used in fresh wounds to stop the flow of the blood.
f De simpl. Med. ad Paternian. apud Schenchzer. Physic. Sacr. vol. 4. p. 661.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And he took him a potsherd - The word used here חרשׁ chârâsh means a fragment of a broken vessel; see the notes at Isaiah 45:9. The Septuagint renders it ὄστρακον ostrakon - “a shell.” One object of taking this was to remove from his body the filth accumulated by the universal ulcer, compare Job 7:4-5; and another design probably was, to “indicate” the greatness of his calamity and sorrow. The ancients were accustomed to show their grief by significant external actions (compare the notes at Job 1:20), and nothing could more strongly denote the greatness of the calamity, than for a man of wealth, honor, and distinction, to sit down in the ashes, to take a piece of broken earthen-ware, and begin to scrape his body covered over with undressed and most painful sores. It does not appear that anything was done to heal him, or any kindness shown in taking care of his disease. It would seem that he was at once separated from his home, as a man whom none would venture to approach, and was doomed to endure his suffering without sympathy from others.
To scrape himself withal - The word used here גרד gârad has the sense of grating, scraping, sawing; or to scrape or rasp with an edged tool. The same word identically, as to letters, is used at present among the Arabs; meaning to rasp or scrape with any kind of tool. The idea here seems to be, that Job took the pieces of broken pottery that he found among the ashes to scrape himself with.
And he sat down among the ashes - On the expressions of grief among the ancients, see the notes at Job 1:20. The general ideas of mourning among the nations of antiquity seem to have been, to strip off all their ornaments; to put on the coarsest apparel, and to place themselves in the most humiliating positions. To sit on the ground (see the note at Isaiah 3:26), or on a heap of ashes, or a pile of cinders, was a common mode of expressing sorrow; see the note at Isaiah 58:5. To wear sackcloth to shave their heads and their beards and to abstain from pleasant food and from all cheerful society, and to utter loud and long exclamations or shrieks, was also a common mode of indicating grief. The Vulgate renders this “sedates in sterquilinio,” “sitting on a dunghill.” The Septuagint, “and he took a shell to scrape off the ichor (ἰχῶρα ichōra) the “sanies,” or filth produced by a running ulcer, and sat upon the ashes “out of the city,”” implying that his grief was so excessive that he left the city and his friends, and went out to weep alone.
