Job 2:8 - New Revised Standard Version

⁸ Job took a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and sat among the ashes.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ And he took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself, and he sat [down] among the ashes.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

⁸ Job took a piece of broken pottery to scratch himself and sat down on a mound of ashes.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ So he took a shard of earthenware and scraped the discharge, while sitting on a heap of refuse.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ And he took a potsherd and scraped the corrupt matter, sitting on a dunghill.

Job 2:8 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 13:19

But Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore the long robe that she was wearing; she put her hand on her head, and went away, crying aloud as she went.

Esther 4:1

When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went through the city, wailing with a loud and bitter cry;

Esther 4:3

In every province, wherever the king's command and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and most of them lay in sackcloth and ashes.

Job 2:9

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still persist in your integrity? Curse God, and die.”

Job 42:6

therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

Psalm 38:5

My wounds grow foul and fester because of my foolishness;

Psalm 38:7

For my loins are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.

Isaiah 61:3

to provide for those who mourn in Zion— to give them a garland instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantle of praise instead of a faint spirit. They will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, to display his glory.

Jeremiah 6:26

O my poor people, put on sackcloth, and roll in ashes; make mourning as for an only child, most bitter lamentation: for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

Ezekiel 27:30

and wail aloud over you, and cry bitterly. They throw dust on their heads and wallow in ashes;

Jonah 3:6

When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Matthew 11:21

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the deeds of power done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.