Job 2:8
Job took a shard of broken pottery to scrape himself with while he was sitting among the ashes.
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- Job 42:6 : 6 Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes!
- Ezek 27:30 : 30 They will lament loudly over you and cry bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in the ashes;
- Jonah 3:6 : 6 When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, put on sackcloth, and sat on ashes.
- Matt 11:21 : 21 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! If the miracles done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
- Luke 16:20-21 : 20 But at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus whose body was covered with sores, 21 who longed to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. In addition, the dogs came and licked his sores.
- Ps 38:5 : 5 My wounds are infected and starting to smell, because of my foolish sins.
- Ps 38:7 : 7 For I am overcome with shame and my whole body is sick.
- Isa 61:3 : 3 to strengthen those who mourn in Zion, by giving them a turban, instead of ashes, oil symbolizing joy, instead of mourning, a garment symbolizing praise, instead of discouragement. They will be called oaks of righteousness, trees planted by the LORD to reveal his splendor.
- Jer 6:26 : 26 So I said,“Oh, my dear people, put on sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with painful sobs as though you had lost your only child. For any moment now that destructive army will come against us.”
- 2 Sam 13:19 : 19 Then Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the long robe she was wearing. She put her hands on her head and went on her way, wailing as she went.
- Job 19:14-17 : 14 My kinsmen have failed me; my friends have forgotten me. 15 My guests and my servant girls consider me a stranger; I am a foreigner in their eyes. 16 I summon my servant, but he does not respond, even though I implore him with my own mouth. 17 My breath is repulsive to my wife; I am loathsome to my brothers.
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- Job 2:2-76 verses81%
2And the LORD said to Satan,“Where do you come from?” Satan answered the LORD,“From roving about on the earth, and from walking back and forth across it.”
3Then the LORD said to Satan,“Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil. And he still holds firmly to his integrity, so that you stirred me up to destroy him without reason.”
4But Satan answered the LORD,“Skin for skin! Indeed, a man will give up all that he has to save his life!
5But extend your hand and strike his bone and his flesh, and he will no doubt curse you to your face!”
6So the LORD said to Satan,“All right, he is in your power; only preserve his life.”
7Job’s Integrity in Suffering So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD, and he afflicted Job with a malignant ulcer from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.
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19He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.
- Job 2:9-102 verses74%
9Then his wife said to him,“Are you still holding firmly to your integrity? Curse God, and die!”
10But he replied,“You’re talking like one of the godless women would do! Should we receive what is good from God, and not also receive what is evil?” In all this Job did not sin by what he said.
- Job 1:20-212 verses74%
20Then Job got up and tore his robe. He shaved his head, and then he threw himself down with his face to the ground.
21He said,“Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return there. The LORD gives, and the LORD takes away. May the name of the LORD be blessed!”
- Job 42:6-83 verses74%
6Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes!
7After the LORD had spoken these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite,“My anger is stirred up against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.
8So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will intercede for you, and I will respect him, so that I do not deal with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.”
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16ו(Vav) He ground my teeth in gravel; he trampled me in the dust.
- Job 1:6-127 verses70%
6Satan’s Accusation of Job Now the day came when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD– and Satan also arrived among them.
7The LORD said to Satan,“Where have you come from?” And Satan answered the LORD,“From roving about on the earth, and from walking back and forth across it.”
8So the LORD said to Satan,“Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil.”
9Then Satan answered the LORD,“Is it for nothing that Job fears God?
10Have you not made a hedge around him and his household and all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock have increased in the land.
11But extend your hand and strike everything he has, and he will no doubt curse you to your face!”
12So the LORD said to Satan,“All right then, everything he has is in your power. Only do not extend your hand against the man himself!” So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.
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15I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and buried my horn in the dust;
- Exod 9:8-103 verses69%
8The Sixth Blow: Boils Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,“Take handfuls of soot from a furnace, and have Moses throw it into the air while Pharaoh is watching.
9It will become fine dust over the whole land of Egypt and will cause boils to break out and fester on both people and animals in all the land of Egypt.”
10So they took soot from a furnace and stood before Pharaoh, Moses threw it into the air, and it caused festering boils to break out on both people and animals.
- Job 19:1-22 verses69%
1Job’s Reply to Bildad Then Job answered:
2“How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?
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31then you plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me.
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14It shatters in pieces like a clay jar, so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged. Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough to scoop a hot coal from a fire or to skim off water from a cistern.”
- Job 3:1-22 verses68%
1II. Job’s Dialogue With His Friends(3:1-27:33) Job Regrets His Birth After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born.
2Job spoke up and said:
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9For I eat ashes as if they were bread, and mix my drink with my tears,
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30Its underparts are the sharp points of potsherds, it leaves its mark in the mud like a threshing sledge.
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5My body is clothed with worms and dirty scabs; my skin is broken and festering.
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4ב(Bet) He has made my mortal skin waste away; he has broken my bones.
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1Job’s Reply to Bildad Then Job answered:
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3Then Job answered the LORD:
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1Job Replies to Eliphaz Then Job responded:
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1Job’s Reply to Eliphaz Then Job answered:
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19Or a person is chastened by pain on his bed, and with the continual strife of his bones,
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1Job’s Reply to Zophar Then Job answered:
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13מ(Mem) He sent down fire into my bones, and it overcame them. He spread out a trapper’s net for my feet; he made me turn back. He has made me desolate; I am faint all day long.
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29Let him bury his face in the dust; perhaps there is hope.
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11Set the empty pot on the coals, until it becomes hot and its copper glows, until its uncleanness melts within it and its rot is consumed.
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21Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me, for the hand of God has struck me.
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6When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, put on sackcloth, and sat on ashes.
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1A Protest of Innocence And Job took up his discourse again:
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11He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate.
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7What man is like Job, who drinks derision like water!