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Job 2:8
And he took a potsherd and scraped the corrupt matter, sitting on a dunghill.
Job 2:8 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
Job 2:8 in other translations
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.
He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
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In context
5 But put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and then thou shalt see that he will bless thee to thy face.
6 And the Lord said to Satan: Behold, he is in thy hand, but yet save his life.
7 So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job with a very grievous ulcer, from the sole of the foot even to the top of his head:
8 And he took a potsherd and scraped the corrupt matter, sitting on a dunghill.
9 And his wife said to him: Dost thou still continue in thy simplicity? bless God and die.
10 And he said to her: Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish women: If we have received good things at the hand of God, why should we not receive evil? In all these things Job did not sin with his lips.
11 Now when Job's three friends heard all the evil that had befallen him, they came every one from his own place, Eliphaz, the Themanite, and Baldad, the Suhite, and Sophar, the Naamathite. For they had made an appointment to come together and visit him, and comfort him.
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