Job 2:7-8

Geneva Study Bible - Job 2:8

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. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Job 2:1-13

SATAN INFLICTS BODILY SUFFERING ON HIM (vv.1-10), Another day comes when Satan presents himself to God among the sons of God, and his response to God's first question was the same as in Chapter 1. Then God faces him with the fact that Job had not done what Satan said he would if deprived of his possessions (v.3). Certainly Satan ought to have acknowledged he had been wrong and to have apologised for his manifest error. But Satan is like too many people. Instead of admitting wrong, they want... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Job 2:1-13

THEME AND OUTLINE The theme of Job seems to be the meaning and object of evil and suffering under the government of a holy, wise and merciful God, and may be outlined thus: The Prologue (Job 1-2, in prose) The Dialogue (Job 3-31, in poetry) The Words of Elihu (Job 32-37, in poetry) The Words of the Almighty (Job 38-41, in poetry) The Response of (Job 42:1-6 , in poetry) The Epilogue (Job 42:7-17 , in prose) THE KEY TO THE BOOK The key to the book is found in the first chapter, which, after... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Job 2:1-13

The Assaults of Satan Job 2:0 Remember that the man spoken about is "a perfect man and an upright, one that feared God and eschewed evil." The speaker is Satan, who came with the sons of God on the first occasion, and said, "Touch all that Job hath, and he will curse thee to thy face." He was allowed to touch Job's property, and he failed in his purpose. On another occasion the same devil came back with the sons of God, and enlarged his proposition. He said, "Touch his bone and his flesh, and... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Job 2:7-8

(7) ¶ So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown. (8) And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes. Everything tended to aggravate Job's affliction, because added to the sores of the body, no doubt the enemy made the most furious attack on his soul. But here what a type was Job of his Redeemer; who in his unequalled seasons of temptation was at once oppressed with hunger, and... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Job 2:7

Ulcer; the leprosy: and even with that species which is called the venereal disease, which may be contracted without any crime. Job was afflicted with a complication of the most painful and disgraceful disorders. (Pineda) (Calmet) read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Job 2:8

Potsherd. His nails were worn, and poverty had left him nothing else. --- Dunghill. Hebrew, "ashes." (Haydock) --- St. Chrysostom represents this place as visited by pilgrims, instructive and more brilliant than any throne. (Hom. 5. ad Pop. Ant.) -- Septuagint add, "upon the dung, without the city: and after a long time had elapsed, his wife also said to him, How long wilt thou wait, saying: Lo, I will still tarry a little while, expecting the hope of my salvation? For behold thy memory is... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Job 2:7-10

7-10 The devil tempts his own children, and draws them to sin, and afterwards torments, when he has brought them to ruin; but this child of God he tormented with affliction, and then tempted to make a bad use of his affliction. He provoked Job to curse God. The disease was very grievous. If at any time we are tried with sore and grievous distempers, let us not think ourselves dealt with otherwise than as God sometimes deals with the best of his saints and servants. Job humbled himself under the... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Job 2:1-8

Job Stricken with a Severe Disease v. 1. Again there was a day, some time after Satan had exhausted his efforts to shake the piety of Job by the destruction of his property and the slaughter of his children, when the sons of God, the angels, as ministers of Jehovah, came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the Lord, as on the previous occasion, 1:13. v. 2. And the Lord said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Job 2:1-13

HISTORICAL INTRODUCTIONPROLOGUEJob 1:1-22, Job 2:1-131. Job’s Character and Course of Life. (Job 1:1-15.)1There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. 2And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters. 3His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of... read more

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