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Job Chapter 2 verse 8 Holy Bible

ASV Job 2:8

And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself therewith; and he sat among the ashes.
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BBE Job 2:8

And he took a broken bit of a pot, and, seated in the dust, was rubbing himself with the sharp edge of it.
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DARBY Job 2:8

And he took a potsherd to scrape himself with; and he sat among the ashes.
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KJV Job 2:8

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

And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself with it; and he sat down among the ashes.
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WEB Job 2:8

He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
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YLT Job 2:8

And he taketh to him a potsherd to scrape himself with it, and he is sitting in the midst of the ashes.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 8. - And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal. "The surface of the integuments," says Dr. Quain, "is often much inflamed, and sometimes discharges a serous ichor, or chyle-like fluid, according to the extent to which the lymphatics are engaged in the particular ease" (ibid., p. 432). This "serous or lymph-like fluid" is occasionally "acrid and offensive." Job seems to have used his potsherd to scrape it away. And he sat down among the ashes. Not as a curative process, or even as an alleviation of his pains, but simply as was the custom of mourners (comp. Isaiah 47:3; Isaiah 58:5; Jeremiah 6:26; Ezekiel 27:30; Jonah 3:6). The LXX. renders, "on the dung-heap;" but this meaning, if a possible one, is highly improbable.

Ellicott's Commentary