And he took
3947 {3947} Primeלָקַחlaqach{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} Primeחֶרֶשׂcheres{kheh'-res}
A collateral form mediating between H2775 and H2791; a piece of pottery.
to scrape
y1623 [1623] Standardגָּרַדgarad{gaw-rad'}
A primitive root; to abrade.
z8692 <8692> Grammar
Stem - Hithpael (See H8819) Mood - Infinitive (See H8812) Count - 116
himself
x1623 (1623) Complementגָּרַדgarad{gaw-rad'}
A primitive root; to abrade.
withal; and he
x1931 (1931) Complementהוּאhuw'{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} Primeיָשַׁבyashab{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} Primeתָּוֶךְtavek{taw'-vek}
From an unused root meaning to sever; a bisection, that is, (by implication) the centre.
the ashes.
665 {0665} Primeאֵפֶר'epher{ay'-fer}
From an unused root meaning to bestrew; ashes. |
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). |
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. |
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. |
- 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.
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- 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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