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AND HE TOOK HIM A POTSHERD - The word used here חרשׁ _chârâsh_
means a fragment of a broken vessel; see the notes at Isaiah 45:9. The
Septuagint renders it ὄστρακον _ostrakon_ - “a shell.”
One obj...
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CHAPTER 2:1-10
_ 1. Jehovah's second challenge and Satan's answer (Job 2:1)_
2. Job stricken (Job 2:7)
3. Job's wife, Job's answer and victory (Job 2:9)
Job 2
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THE NARRATIVE OF THE SECOND CONVERSATION BETWEEN YAHWEH AND THE SATAN
AND ITS ISSUES. Again the heavenly council comes together, and Yahweh
reproaches the Satan with instigating Him to bring undeserve...
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sat down. was sitting....
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_and he sat down among the ashes_ Rather, AS HE SAT AMONG. By the
"ashes" is possibly meant (as the Sept. already understands, which
translates ἐ π ὶ τ ῆ ς κοπρίας) the Mázbalah, the
place outside the...
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AND HE TOOK HIM A POTSHERD, &C.— It is plain that the disease of Job
was cuticular, says Dr. Mede; and it is as certain that the bodies of
the Hebrews were (in those hot countries) very liable to ulce...
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6. The second trialbodily suffering (Job 2:1-8)
TEXT 2:1-8
2 Again it came to pass on the day when the sons of God came to
present themselves before Jehovah, that Satan came also among them to
presen...
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_AND HE TOOK HIM A POTSHERD TO SCRAPE HIMSELF WITHAL; AND HE SAT DOWN
AMONG THE ASHES._
A potsherd - not a piece of a broken earthen vessel, but an
instrument made for scratching (the root of the Heb...
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THE PROLOGUE (CONTINUED)
Job's second trial. He refuses to renounce God when afflicted with an
excruciating disease. Three friends come to comfort him....
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A POTSHERD] A piece of earthenware to remove the scurf skin. HE SAT
DOWN AMONG THE ASHES] Perhaps those of his camp fires. This was a sign
of mourning. Tradition places him on a dunghill, like the 'Mi...
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Satan made Job ill. Job’s skin was very painful.
This was a terrible test. Job had suffered very many troubles in
chapter 1. And now, Job was ill.
Job made a tool that he rubbed against the spots. T...
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible.
This commentary has been through Advanced Checking.
CHAPTER 2
SATAN OPPOSES JOB AGAIN...
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וַ יִּֽקַּֽח ־לֹ֣ו חֶ֔רֶשׂ לְ
הִתְגָּרֵ֖ד בֹּ
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V.
THE DILEMMA OF FAITH
Job 2:1
As the drama proceeds to unfold the conflict between Divine grace in
the human soul and those chaotic influences which hold the mind in
doubt or drag it back into den...
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“AMONG THE ASHES”
Job 2:1
It gives God deep pleasure when He can point to one of His servants
who has borne fiery trial with unwavering patience and faith. The
adversary comes back from his restless,...
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Again the solemn council met, and again Satan was present. The Most
High uttered the same estimate of His servant as before, adding
thereto a declaration of Job's victory in the conflict which had tak...
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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....
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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 bri...
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(7) В¶ 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 do...
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From Riches to Ashes
I. INTRODUCTION
A. In our last study of the first Chapter of Job, we saw heavenly
beings gathered to give an account to the Lord - and satan was amongst
them!
1. satan accused...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 AND 2.
In Job we have man put to the test; we might say, with our present
knowledge, man renewed by grace, an upright man and righteous in his
ways, in ord...
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AND HE TOOK HIM A POTSHERD TO SCRAPE HIMSELF WITHAL,.... His mouth was
shut, his lips were silent, not one murmuring and repining word came
from him, amidst all this anguish and misery he must be in;...
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And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down
among the ashes.
Ver. 8. _And he took him a potsherd_] A piece of a broken pot, for
want of better; ointments he had none, nor bat...
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_And he took a potsherd_, &c. His children and servants were all dead,
his wife unkind, and none of those whom he had formerly befriended had
so much sense of honour and gratitude as to minister to hi...
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And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal, evidently to
relieve the intolerable itching of the festering sores; AND HE SAT
DOWN AMONG THE ASHES, to indicate that he was submerged in grief an...
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JOB STRICKEN WITH A SEVERE DISEASE...
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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. T...
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"AND HE TOOK. POTSHERD TO SCRAPE HIMSELF": So intense was the itching
from the sores that Job took. broken piece of pottery to scrape
himself. Yet note that Satan still has no avenue of attack in the...
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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...
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HE TOOK HIM A POTSHERD; partly to allay the itch which his ulcers
caused; and partly to squeeze out or take away that purulent matter
which was under them, or flowed from them, and was the great cause...
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Job 2:8 took H3947 (H8799) potsherd H2789 scrape H1623 (H8692) sat
H3427 (H8802) midst H8432 ashes...
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CONTENTS: Job in Satan's seive. Family, property and health gone. His
three friends.
CHARACTERS: God, Job, Satan, Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar.
CONCLUSION: One of the greatest evidences of God's love to t...
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Job 2:1. _There was a day when the sons of God &c._ As on the former
chapter, Job 2:6.
Job 2:4. _Skin for skin._ Septuagint, “skin after skin.” Men's
riches in the first periods of society very much c...
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_Behold, he is in thine hand._
SATAN MALEVOLENTLY DEALING WITH JOB’S PERSONALITY
I. Satan’s low estimate of human nature. His language here clearly
implies that even a good man’s love of goodness is...
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_And Satan came also among them._
SPIRITUAL AGENCIES, GOOD AND EVIL, IN SICKNESS
This is one of those mysterious Chapter s of Holy Scripture wherein
God hath graciously vouchsafed, for the strengthen...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 2:1 Job’s second test is like the first (Job 1:6),
but includes an attack on his health.
⇐...
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NOTES
Job 2:7. “_Smote Job with sore boils_.” The Septuagint and
Vulgate, followed by MARTIN and DIODATI in their French and Italian
versions, render the words which describe Job’s disease, “a bad or...
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EXPOSITION
JOB 2:1
This chapter concludes the "Introductory section." It consists of
three parts. Job 2:1 contain an account of Satan's second appearance
in the courts of heaven, and of a second coll...
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So back again to the heavenly scene.
Another day and again the sons of God are presenting themselves before
Jehovah, and Satan is coming with them to present himself before the
LORD (Job 2:1).
I hav...
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HEAVEN'S CONTROVERSY CONCERNING JOB
Job 2:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
1. God's everlasting eye watches over His children. When Satan made
his second entrance into the presence of God, he discovered that t...
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Scrape — This he did not with soft linen clothes, either because he
had not now a sufficient quantity of them; or because therein he must
have had the help of others who abhorred to come near him. Nor...