Job 2:8

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

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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 Septu...
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 wonderful...
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 reproac...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

sat down. was sitting.
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.
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...
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, bu...
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

A potsherd ] A piece of earthenware to remove the scurf skin. He sat down among the ashes ] Perhaps those of his camp fires. This was a sign of mou...
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 influ...
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 pati...
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 declara...
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...
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 hi...
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...
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...
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 t...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job Smitten with Disease; The Affliction of Job. B. C. 1520....
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 und...
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, r...
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 s...
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 wher...
The Biblical Illustrator

Behold, he is in thine hand. Satan malevolently dealing with Job’s personality I. Satan’s low estimate of human nature. His language here clear...
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 Sat...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Stricken with a Severe Disease
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal, evidently to relieve the intolerable itching of the festering sores; and he sat down among the...
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 secon...
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...

⁸ And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.

Related Commentaries of Job 2:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 2:8