Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 2:8

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 2:8 - 2:8

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 2:8 - 2:8

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2:3 - 2:3
2:4 - 2:4
2:6 - 2:6
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2:8 - 2:8
2:9 - 2:9
2:10 - 2:10
2:11 - 2:11
2:12 - 2:12
2:13 - 2:13

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 (Jon 3:6); also humility, as if the mourner were nothing but dust and ashes; so Abraham (Gen 18:27).