Job 2:8

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Job 42:6 : 6 Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes."
  • Ezek 27:30 : 30 and shall cause their voice to be heard over you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust on their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
  • Jonah 3:6 : 6 The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
  • Matt 11:21 : 21 "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
  • Luke 16:20-21 : 20 A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was laid at his gate, full of sores, 21 and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.
  • Ps 38:5 : 5 My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.
  • Ps 38:7 : 7 For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
  • Isa 61:3 : 3 to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.
  • Jer 6:26 : 26 Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come on us.
  • 2 Sam 13:19 : 19 Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her garment of various colors that was on her; and she laid her hand on her head, and went her way, crying aloud as she went.
  • Job 19:14-17 : 14 My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me. 15 Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight. 16 I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth. 17 My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.

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    2Yahweh said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."

    3Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause."

    4Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

    5But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face."

    6Yahweh said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life."

    7So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.

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    19He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

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    6Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes."

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    6Now it happened on the day when God's sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, that Satan also came among them.

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    8Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil."

    9Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "Does Job fear God for nothing?

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    11But put forth your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face."

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