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Job 2:8

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— And he took a potsherd to scrape himself while he was sitting among the ashes.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat among the ashes.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself therewith; and he sat among the ashes.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself with [it]; and he sat down among the ashes.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— And he took a potsherd to scrape himself with; and he sat among the ashes.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— And he took him a potsherd, to scrape himself therewith; he being seated in the midst of ashes.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— And he taketh to him a potsherd to scrape himself with it, and he is sitting in the midst of the ashes.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— And he took a potsherd and scraped the corrupt matter, sitting on a dunghill.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— And he tooke a potsharde to scrape him, and he sate downe among the ashes.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— And hee tooke him a potsheard to scrape himselfe withall; and hee sate downe among the ashes.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— And he took a potsherd to scrape himself with it; and he sat down upon ashes.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— And he took a potsherd to scrape away the discharge, and sat upon a dung-heap outside the city.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
And he took 3947
{3947} Prime
לָקַח
laqach
{law-kakh'}
A primitive root; to take (in the widest variety of applications).
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
him a potsherd 2789
{2789} Prime
חֶרֶשׂ
cheres
{kheh'-res}
A collateral form mediating between H2775 and H2791; a piece of pottery.
to scrape y1623
[1623] Standard
גָּרַד
garad
{gaw-rad'}
A primitive root; to abrade.
z8692
<8692> Grammar
Stem - Hithpael (See H8819)
Mood - Infinitive (See H8812)
Count - 116
himself x1623
(1623) Complement
גָּרַד
garad
{gaw-rad'}
A primitive root; to abrade.
withal; and he x1931
(1931) Complement
הוּא
huw'
{hoo}
The second form is the feminine beyond the Pentateuch; a primitive word, the third person pronoun singular, he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are.
sat down 3427
{3427} Prime
יָשַׁב
yashab
{yaw-shab'}
A primitive root; properly to sit down (specifically as judge, in ambush, in quiet); by implication to dwell, to remain; causatively to settle, to marry.
z8802
<8802> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Participle Active (See H8814)
Count - 5386
among 8432
{8432} Prime
תָּוֶךְ
tavek
{taw'-vek}
From an unused root meaning to sever; a bisection, that is, (by implication) the centre.
the ashes. 665
{0665} Prime
אֵפֶר
'epher
{ay'-fer}
From an unused root meaning to bestrew; ashes.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

Job 2:8

_ _ 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).

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Job 2:7-10.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 2:8

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. Nor with his own hands or fingers, which were also ulcerous, and so unfit for that use; but with potsherds, either because they were next at hand, and ready for his present use; or in token of his deep humiliation under God's hand, which made him decline all things that favoured of tenderness and delicacy. Heb. in dust or ashes, as mourners used to do. If God lay him among the ashes, there he will contentedly sit down. A low spirit becomes low circumstances, and will help to reconcile us to them.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

Job 2:8

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.

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
took him:

Job 19:14-17 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. ... My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's [sake] of mine own body.
Psalms 38:5 My wounds stink [and] are corrupt because of my foolishness.
Psalms 38:7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome [disease]: and [there is] no soundness in my flesh.
Luke 16:20-21 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, ... And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.

he sat:

Job 42:6 Wherefore I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes.
2 Samuel 13:19 And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that [was] on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.
Isaiah 61:3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
Ezekiel 27:30 And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
Jonah 3:6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered [him] with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Matthew 11:21 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
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Chain-Reference Bible SearchCross References with Concordance

2S 13:19. Jb 19:14; 42:6. Ps 38:5, 7. Is 61:3. Ezk 27:30. Jna 3:6. Mt 11:21. Lk 16:20.

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