Catholic Public Domain Version
"So he took a shard of earthenware and scraped the discharge, while sitting on a heap of refuse. "
— Job 2:8, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.”
“And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself therewith; and he sat among the ashes. ”
“He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.”
“Job took a shard of broken pottery to scrape himself with while he was sitting among the ashes.”
“And he took a potsherd and scraped the corrupt matter, sitting on a dunghill.”
“And he took a broken bit of a pot, and, seated in the dust, was rubbing himself with the sharp edge of it.”
“And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.”
Yet send your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and then you will see whether or not he blesses you to your face.”
Therefore, the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand, but even so, spare his life.”
And so, Satan departed from the face of the Lord and he struck Job with a very serious ulcer from the sole of the foot all the way to the crown of his head.
So he took a shard of earthenware and scraped the discharge, while sitting on a heap of refuse.
But his wife said to him, “Do you still continue in your simplicity? Bless God and die.”
He said to her, “You have spoken like one of the foolish wives. If we accepted good things from the hand of God, why should we not accept bad things?” In all this, Job did not sin with his lips.
And so, three friends of Job, hearing about all the evil that had befallen him, arrived, each one from his own place, Eliphaz the Themanite, and Baldad the Suhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they had agreed to come together to visit and console him.