Job 2:8 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

Job took a piece of broken pottery to scratch himself as he sat in the ashes.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

And he took a broken bit of a pot, and, seated in the dust, was rubbing himself with the sharp edge of it.

DBY:

And he took a potsherd to scrape himself with; and he sat among the ashes.

ERV:

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

JPS:

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

WBS:

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

WEB:

He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.

YLT:

And he taketh to him a potsherd to scrape himself with it, and he is sitting in the midst of the ashes.

Job 2:8 Cross References

XREF:

Job 42:6 Therefore I retract, And I repent in dust and ashes."

Jeremiah 6:26 O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth And roll in ashes; Mourn as for an only son, A lamentation most bitter. For suddenly the destroyer Will come upon us.

Ezekiel 27:30 And they will make their voice heard over you And will cry bitterly. They will cast dust on their heads, They will wallow in ashes.

Jonah 3:6 When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, laid aside his robe from him, covered himself with sackcloth and sat on the ashes. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

2:8 And he took him a {i} potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
(i) As destitute of all other help and means and wonderfully afflicted with the sorrow of his disease.

WES:

2:8 Scrape - This he did not with soft linen clothes, either because he had not now a sufficient quantity of them; or because therein he must have had the help of others who abhorred to come near him. Nor with his own hands or fingers, which were also ulcerous, and so unfit for that use; but with potsherds, either because they were next at hand, and ready for his present use; or in token of his deep humiliation under God's hand, which made him decline all things that favoured of tenderness and delicacy. Heb. in dust or ashes, as mourners used to do. If God lay him among the ashes, there he will contentedly sit down. A low spirit becomes low circumstances, and will help to reconcile us to them.

MHC:

2:7-10 The 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 affliction, and then tempted to make a bad use of his affliction. He provoked Job to curse God. The disease was very grievous. If at any time we are tried with sore and grievous distempers, let us not think ourselves dealt with otherwise than as God sometimes deals with the best of his saints and servants. Job humbled himself under the mighty hand of God, and brought his mind to his condition. His wife was spared to him, to be a troubler and tempter to him. Satan still endeavours to draw men from God, as he did our first parents, by suggesting hard thoughts of Him, than which nothing is more false. But Job resisted and overcame the temptation. Shall we, guilty, polluted, worthless creatures, receive so many unmerited blessings from a just and holy God, and shall we refuse to accept the punishment of our sins, when we suffer so much less than we deserve? Let murmuring, as well as boasting, be for ever done away. Thus far Job stood the trial, and appeared brightest in the furnace of affliction. There might be risings of corruption in his heart, but grace had the upper hand.

CONC:

Ashes Bit Broken Dust Edge Midst Piece Pot Potsherd Pottery Rubbing Sat Scrape Scraped Seated Sharp Sitting Taketh Therewith Withal

Ashes Bit Broken Dust Edge Job Midst Piece Pot Potsherd Pottery Rubbing Sat Scrape Scraped Seated Sharp Sitting Therewith Withal

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