Job 2:8 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Job 2:8

6 ^aAnd the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand, but spare his life.”

7 So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job with painful boils ^afrom the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.

8 And he took for himself a potsherd with which to scrape himself ^awhile he sat in the midst of the ashes.

9 Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity?¹ Curse God and die!”

10 But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. ^aShall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” ^bIn all this Job did not ^csin with his lips.

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Job 2:8

a potsherd—not a piece of a broken earthen vessel, but an instrument made for scratching (the root of the Hebrew word is "scratch"); the sore was too disgusting to touch. "To sit in the ashes" marks the deepest mourning (Jonah 3:6); also humility, as if the mourner were nothing but dust and ashes; so Abraham (Genesis 18:27).

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