Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Job 2:8 — And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
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took him   Job 19:14-17; Psa 38:5,7; Luk 16:20,21
he sat   Job 42:6; 2Sa 13:19; Isa 61:3; Eze 27:30; Jon 3:6; Mat 11:21
Correlating Passages
took him
Job 19:14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Job 19:15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
Job 19:16 I called my servant, and he gave [me] no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
Job 19:17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's [sake] of mine own body.
Psa 38:5 My wounds stink [and] are corrupt because of my foolishness.
Psa 38:7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome [disease]: and [there is] no soundness in my flesh.
Luk 16:20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
Luk 16:21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
he sat
Job 42:6 Wherefore I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes.
2Sa 13:19 And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that [was] on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.
Isa 61:3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
Eze 27:30 And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
Jon 3:6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered [him] with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Mat 11:21 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

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