Then Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself while he sat among the ashes.(A)

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12 When they looked from a distance, they could barely recognize him. They wept aloud,(A) and each man tore his robe and threw dust into the air and on his head.(B)

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26 My dear[a] people, dress yourselves in sackcloth
and roll in the dust.(A)
Mourn as you would for an only son,(B)
a bitter lament,
for suddenly the destroyer(C) will come on us.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 6:26 Lit Daughter of my

30 Because of you, they raise their voices
and cry out bitterly.
They throw dust on their heads;(A)
they roll in ashes.

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