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Job 2:8

World English Bible

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

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Job 2:8 in other translations

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

Job 2:8 · American Standard Version

Job 2:8 in context

  1. 6Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”
  2. 7So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.
  3. 8He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
  4. 9Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”
  5. 10But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?”
    In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.