But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.(Job 2:5)

And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.(Job 2:6)

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.(Job 2:7)

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

Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.(Job 2:9)

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.(Job 2:10)

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.(Job 2:11)

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Job 2:8 - Cross Reference

And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes: (Ezekiel 27:30)

My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. (Psalm 38:5)

And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, (Luke 16:20)

For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. (Jonah 3:6)

For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh. (Psalm 38:7)

Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. (Matthew 11:21)

My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. (Job 19:14)

To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified. (Isaiah 61:3)

And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colors that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying. (2 Samuel 13:19)

Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. (Job 42:6)

O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us. (Jeremiah 6:26)