Job 2:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Job 2:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And he took him a potsherd - The word used here חרשׁ chârâsh means a fragment of a broken vessel; see the notes at Isaiah 45:9 . The Septuagint renders it ὄστρακον ostrakon - “a sh...
Job 2:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And he took him a (i) potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes. (i) As destitute of all other help and means and wonderfully afflicted with the sorrow of his disease.
Job 2:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Narrative of the Second Conversation between Yahweh and the Satan and its Issues. Again the heavenly council comes together, and Yahweh reproaches the Satan with instigating Him to bring undese...
Job 2:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

sat down. was sitting.
Job 2:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
Job 2:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And he took him a potsherd, &c.— It is plain that the disease of Job was cuticular, says Dr. Mede; and it is as certain that the bodies of the Hebrews were (in those hot countries) very liable...
Job 2:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes. A potsherd - not a piece of a broken earthen vessel, but an instrument made for scratching (the root of t...
Job 2:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Prologue (continued) Job's second trial. He refuses to renounce God when afflicted with an excruciating disease. Three friends come to comfort him.
Job 2:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

V. THE DILEMMA OF FAITH Job 2:1-13 As the drama proceeds to unfold the conflict between Divine grace in the human soul and those chaotic influences which hold the mind in doubt or drag it back...
Job 2:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Among the Ashes” Job 2:1-13 It gives God deep pleasure when He can point to one of His servants who has borne fiery trial with unwavering patience and faith. The adversary comes back from his...
Job 2:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Again the solemn council met, and again Satan was present. The Most High uttered the same estimate of His servant as before, adding thereto a declaration of Job's victory in the conflict which had ta...
Job 2:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(7) В¶ So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown. (8) And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat d...
Job 2:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal ,.... His mouth was shut, his lips were silent, not one murmuring and repining word came from him, amidst all this anguish and misery he must be i...
Job 2:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes. Ver. 8. And he took him a potsherd ] A piece of a broken pot, for want of better; ointments he had none, nor b...
Job 2:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And he took a potsherd , &c. His children and servants were all dead, his wife unkind, and none of those whom he had formerly befriended had so much sense of honour and gratitude as to minister...
Job 2:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

SATAN INFLICTS BODILY SUFFERING ON HIM (vv.1-10), Another day comes when Satan presents himself to God among the sons of God, and his response to God's first question was the same as in Chapter...
Job 2:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job Smitten with Disease; The Affliction of Job. B. C. 1520. 7 So went Satan forth fro...
Job 2:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

He took him a potsherd; partly to allay the itch which his ulcers caused; and partly to squeeze out or take away that purulent matter which was under them, or flowed from them, and was the great ca...
Job 2:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Notes Job 2:7 . “ Smote Job with sore boils .” The Septuagint and Vulgate, followed by MARTIN and DIODATI in their French and Italian versions, render the words which describe Job’s disease, “a b...
Job 2:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 2:1 . There was a day when the sons of God &c. As on the former chapter, Job 2:6 . Job 2:4 . Skin for skin. Septuagint, “skin after skin.” Men's riches in the first periods of society...
Job 2:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

And Satan came also among them. Spiritual agencies, good and evil, in sickness This is one of those mysterious Chapter s of Holy Scripture wherein God hath graciously vouchsafed, for the streng...
Job 2:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 2:1-18 This chapter concludes the "Introductory section." It consists of three parts. Job 2:1-18 contain an account of Satan's second appearance in the courts of heaven, an...
Job 2:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Stricken with a Severe Disease
Job 2:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 13:19 ; Ezekiel 27:30 ; Isaiah 61:3 ; Job 19:14-17 ; Job 42:6 ; Jonah 3:6 ; Luke 16:20 ; Luke 16:21 ; Matthew 11:21 ; Psalms 38:5 ; Psalms 38:7
Job 2:8 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Heaven's Controversy Concerning Job Job 2:1-9 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. God's everlasting eye watches over His children. When Satan made his second entrance into the presence of God, he discovered...
Job 2:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Scrape — This he did not with soft linen clothes, either because he had not now a sufficient quantity of them; or because therein he must have had the help of others who abhorred to come near him....

Job 2:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 2:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Job 2:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 2:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Job 2:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 2:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 2:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 2:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 2:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 2:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 2:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 2:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 2:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 2:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 2:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 2:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 2:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 2:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 2:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 2:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 2:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 2:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 2:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 2:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 2:8 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Job 2:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes