Job 2:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.

Job 2:8 —

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Cross-References

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Job 42:6
Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Jonah 3:6
For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Ezekiel 27:30
And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
Matthew 11:21
Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Luke 16:20-21
And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, …

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Faith Offenses Potsherd Stumbling Temptation Trial Watchfulness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-10)

The devil, having got leave to tear and worry poor Job, presently fell to work with him, as a tormentor first and then as a tempter. His own children he tempts first, and draws them to sin, and afterwards torments, when thereby he has brought them to ruin; but this child of God he tormented with an affliction, and then tempted to make a bad use of his affliction. That which he aimed at was to make…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. a potsherd--not a piece of a broken earthen vessel, but an instrument made for scratching (the root of the Hebrew word is “scratch”); the sore was too disgusting to touch. “To sit in the ashes” marks the deepest mourning (Jon 3:6); also humility, as if the mourner were nothing but dust and ashes; so Abraham (Ge 18:27).