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The Book of Job, Chapter 2, Verse 8

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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.
King James Version
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
American Standard Version
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself therewith; and he sat among the ashes.
New English Translation
Job took a shard of broken pottery to scrape himself with while he was sitting among the ashes.
World English Bible
He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
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Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
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But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
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Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
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And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
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So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that [his] grief was very great.
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After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
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And Job spake, and said,
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Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a man child conceived.
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Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
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Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.