Job 2:8

which Joob schauyde the quytere with a schelle, `and sat in the dunghil.

Bible (Wycliffe)

In The King James Version

And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.

In Context

7Therfor Sathan yede out fro the face of the Lord, and smoot Joob with `a ful wickid botche fro the sole of the foot `til to his top;

9Forsothe his wijf seide to hym, Dwellist thou yit in thi symplenesse? Curse thou God, and die.

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Cross References

Esther 4:1And whanne Mardochee hadde herd these thingis, he to-rente hise clothis, and he was clothid in a sak, and spreynt aische on the heed, and he criede with greet vois in the street of the myddis of the citee, and schewide the bitternesse of his soule,

Job 19:14My neiyboris forsoken me; and thei that knewen me han foryete me.

Psalms 38:5I spak in my tunge; Lord, make thou myn eende knowun to me. And the noumbre of my daies what it is; that Y wite, what failith to me.

Isaiah 61:3that Y schulde sette coumfort to the moureneris of Sion, and that Y schulde yyue to them a coroun for aische, oile of ioie for mourenyng, a mentil of preysyng for the spirit of weilyng. And stronge men of riytfulnesse schulen be clepid ther ynne, the plauntyng of the Lord for to glorifie.

Ezekiel 27:30and schulen yelle on thee with greet vois. And thei shulen cry bitterli, and thei schulen caste poudur on her heedis, and schulen be spreynt with aische.

Matthew 11:21Wo to thee! Corosaym, woo to thee! Bethsaida; for if the vertues that ben doon in you hadden be doon in Tyre and Sidon, sumtyme thei hadden don penaunce in heyre and aische.

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