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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.
Then Job sat on the ash-heap to show his sorrow. And while he was scraping his sores with a broken piece of pottery,
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.
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
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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
Then the Lord God planted a garden in the East, in a place named Eden. He put the man he made in that garden.
Then the Lord God caused all the beautiful trees that were good for food to grow in the garden. In the middle of the garden, he put the tree of life and the tree that gives knowledge about good and evil.
God forced the man to leave the garden. Then he put Cherub angels and a sword of fire at the entrance to the garden to protect it. The sword flashed around and around, guarding the way to the tree of life.
Cain went away from the Lord and lived in the land of Nod.
Lot looked and saw the whole Jordan Valley. He saw that there was much water there. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. At that time the Jordan Valley all the way to Zoar was like the Lord 's Garden. This was good land, like the land of Egypt.)
Did the gods of those nations save their people? No, my ancestors destroyed them all. They destroyed Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden living in Tel Assar.
In the same way, the Lord will bless Zion. He will feel sorry for her and her people, and he will do something great for her. He will turn the desert into a garden. It will be like the Garden of Eden. The land was empty, but it will become like the Lord 's garden. People there will be very happy. They will sing victory songs to thank God for what he did.
Haran, Canneh, Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Kilmad traded with you.
You were in Eden, the garden of God. You had every precious stone— rubies, topaz, and diamonds, beryls, onyx, and jasper, sapphires, turquoise, and emeralds. And each of these stones was set in gold. You were given this beauty on the day you were created. God made you strong.
I made the tree fall—and the nations shook with fear at the sound of the falling tree. I sent the tree down to the place of death to join the other people who had gone down into that deep hole. In the past, all the trees of Eden, the best of Lebanon, drank that water. The trees were comforted in the world below.
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.
