Job 2:8 (KJV)

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Job 2:8 KJV

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

Old Words

potsherd a piece of broken pottery
withal with it; besides

What these words meant when the King James Bible was translated.

Matthew Henry

Job's sufferingsThe devil tempts his own children, and draws them to sin, and afterwards torments, when he has brought them to ruin; but this child of God he tormented with...

Cross References

Job 42:6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and 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:
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.
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, …
2 Samuel 13:19 And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.
Job 19:14–17 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. …
Psalms 38:5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
Psalms 38:7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
Isaiah 61:3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
Jeremiah 6:26 O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.

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Topics

Afflictions and adversities From Satan
Ashes Sitting in
Boil Of Job
Faith Job, by affliction and adversity
God Job’s
Job Trial of, by affliction of Satan
Potsherd Fragment of earthenware
Temptation A test

Strong’s Numbers

And he took לָקַח lâqach
him a potsherd חֶרֶשׂ cheres
to scrape גָּרַד gârad
himself withal; and he sat down יָשַׁב yâshab
among תָּוֶךְ tâvek
the ashes אֵפֶר ʼêpher

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