job 2:8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.

job 2:8 And he took a potsherd to scrape himself while he was sitting among the ashes.

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 (Jon 3:6); also humility, as if the mourner were nothing but dust and ashes; so Abraham (Ge 18:27).

job 2:8 And he took a potsherd to scrape himself while he was sitting among the ashes.

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