Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
And he took a potsherd for him to scrape himself with it, and he sat among the ashes.
New American Standard Bible
And he took a potsherd to scrape himself while
King James Version
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
Holman Bible
Then Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself while he sat among the ashes.
International Standard Version
Job took a broken piece of pottery to scrape himself while sitting among the ashes.
American Standard Version
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself therewith; and he sat among the ashes.
Amplified
And Job took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself, and he sat [down] among the ashes (rubbish heaps).
Bible in Basic English
And he took a broken bit of a pot, and, seated in the dust, was rubbing himself with the sharp edge of it.
Darby Translation
And he took a potsherd to scrape himself with; and he sat among the ashes.
Julia Smith Translation
And he will take to him a pot sherd to scrape himself with it, and he will sit in the midst of the ashes.
King James 2000
And he took himself a potsherd to scrape himself with; and he sat down among the ashes.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{So} he took for himself a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and he sat in the midst of the ashes.
Modern King James verseion
And he took a broken piece of pottery to scrape himself with. And he sat down among the ashes.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
so that he sat upon the ground in the ashes, and scraped off the filth of his sores with a potsherd.
NET Bible
Job took a shard of broken pottery to scrape himself with while he was sitting among the ashes.
New Heart English Bible
He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
The Emphasized Bible
And he took him a potsherd, to scrape himself therewith; he being seated in the midst of ashes.
Webster
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself with it; and he sat down among the ashes.
World English Bible
He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
Youngs Literal Translation
And he taketh to him a potsherd to scrape himself with it, and he is sitting in the midst of the ashes.
Themes
Diseases » Regarded as visitations
Job » A man who lived in uz » Trial of, by affliction of satan
Potsherd » Fragment of earthenware
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 2:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Blameless Behavior
7 So Satan went forth from the presence of LORD, and smote Job with severe boils from the sole of his foot to his crown. 8 And he took a potsherd for him to scrape himself with it, and he sat among the ashes. 9 Then his wife said to him, Do thou still hold fast thine integrity? Renounce God, and die.
Names
Cross References
Job 42:6
Therefore I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes.
Ezekiel 27:30
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.
Jonah 3:6
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.
Matthew 11:21
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.
2 Samuel 13:19
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.
Job 19:14-17
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Psalm 38:5
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, 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 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
Jeremiah 6:26
O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes. Make thee mourning, as for an only son, a most bitter lamentation. For the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.
Luke 16:20-21
But there was a certain poor man named Lazarus, who had been placed near his gate, covered with sores,