Job 2:8

Job's Blameless Behavior

⁷ Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. ⁸ And he took a potsherd to scrape himself while he was sitting among the ashes. ⁹ Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die!”

Job

Job 42:6

Therefore I retract,
And I repent in dust and ashes.”

Ezekiel 27:30

And they will make their voice heard over you
And will cry bitterly.
They will cast dust on their heads,
They will wallow in ashes.

Jonah 3:6

When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, laid aside his robe from him, covered himself with sackcloth and sat on the ashes.

Matthew 11:21

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles had occurred in Tyre and Sidon which occurred in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

2 Samuel 13:19

Tamar put ashes on her head and tore her long-sleeved garment which was on her; and she put her hand on her head and went away, crying aloud as she went.

Job 19:14-17

“My relatives have failed,
And my intimate friends have forgotten me.

Psalm 38:5

My wounds grow foul and fester
Because of my folly.

Psalm 38:7

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

Isaiah 61:3

To grant those who mourn in Zion,
Giving them a garland instead of ashes,
The oil of gladness instead of mourning,
The mantle of praise instead of a spirit of fainting.
So they will be called oaks of righteousness,
The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.

Jeremiah 6:26

O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth
And roll in ashes;
Mourn as for an only son,
A lamentation most bitter.
For suddenly the destroyer
Will come upon us.

Luke 16:20-21

And a poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores,