Job 2:8 meaning and explanation

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

Job 2:8, Berean Standard Bible

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Job has just been struck with painful boils from head to foot, and this verse shows him sitting among the ashes, scraping his skin with a shard of broken pottery. The ashes were likely the refuse heap outside the town, a place of mourning and uncleanness.

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