Job 2:8

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Summary

Job 2:8

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

Took him

Job 19:14

Psalm 38:5

Luke 16:20

He sat

Bible References

Took him

My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.

But there was a certain poor man named Lazarus, who had been placed near his gate, covered with sores,

He sat

Therefore I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes.

And Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her garment of various colors that was on her. And she laid her hand on her head, and went her way, crying aloud as she went.

to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of LORD, that

and shall cause their voice to be heard over thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads. They shall wallow themselves in the ashes.

And the news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Woe to thee, Chorazin! Woe to thee, Bethsaida! Because if the mighty works that occurred in you occurred in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.