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Job 2:8

The Pulpit Commentary on Job 2:8

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal. "The surface of the integuments," says Dr. Quain, "is often much inflamed, and sometimes discharges a serous ichor, or chyle-like fluid, according to the extent to which the lymphatics are engaged in the particular ease".

This "serous or lymph-like fluid" is occasionally "acrid and offensive." Job seems to have used his potsherd to scrape it away. And he sat down among the ashes. Not as a curative process, or even as an alleviation of his pains, but simply as was the custom of mourners (comp.

; ; ; ; ). The LXX. renders, "on the dung-heap;" but this meaning, if a possible one, is highly improbable.

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