Job 2:8

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Job 2:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

6 “Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.”

7 So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.

8 And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.

9 Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”

10 “You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 19:14

My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.

Job 19:15

My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.

Job 19:16

I call for my servant, but he does not answer, though I implore him with my own mouth.

Job 19:17

My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.

Psalms 38:5

My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.

Psalms 38:7

For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body.

Luke 16:20

And a beggar named Lazarus lay at his gate, covered with sores

Luke 16:21

and longing to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.

Job 42:6

Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”

2 Samuel 13:19

And Tamar put ashes on her head and tore her robe. And putting her hand on her head, she went away crying bitterly.

Isaiah 61:3

to console the mourners in Zion— to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.

Ezekiel 27:30

They will raise their voices for you and cry out bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in ashes.

Jonah 3:6

When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Matthew 11:21

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.