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.
Sore boils - malignant boils. Rather, as it is singular in the Hebrew, a burning sore, Job was covered with one universal inflammation. It was of the potsherd agrees with this view. It was that form of leprosy called black (to distinguish it from the white) or Elephantiasis, because the feet swell like those of the elephant. The Arabic judham: The Hebrew is the same in Deuteronomy 28:35, where sore botch is rather the black burning boil (Isaiah 1:6): х bishchiyn (H7822) ra` (H7451)], called in Deuteronomy 28:27, "the botch of Egypt:" (cf. Psalms 38:4-8.)