Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 2:8

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8. a potsherd —not a piece of a broken earthen vessel, but an instrument made for scratching (the root of the Hebrew word is "scratch"); the sore was too disgusting to touch. "To sit in the ashes" marks the deepest mourning ( Jonah 3:6 ); also humility, as if the mourner were nothing but dust and ashes; so Abraham ( Genesis 18:27 ). Genesis 18:27- : . JOB REPROVES HIS WIFE. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-9" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-job-2-002

절 (explains)

bible-text/job-2-8

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
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