Job 2:8 (WEB)
He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
Fathers and councils · 2
Ambrose of Milan
“He had read how Job, sitting among the ashes, regained all that he had lost.” — editor's note: Job ii. 8.
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Tertullian
“How did God smile, how was the evil one cut asunder, while Job with mighty equanimity kept scraping off the unclean overflow of his own ulcer, while he sportively replaced the vermin that brake out thence, in the same caves and feeding-places of his pitted flesh!” — editor's note: Job ii. 8.
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.1.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 14.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.1.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.1.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.1.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.1.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 14.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 14.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.1.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.1.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.1.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.1.