Job 2:12

Job’s Three Friends · Job 2:11–13
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Translations

Modern
When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job. They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust in the air over his head.
Traditional
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.
Literal
And they lifted their eyes from afar, and they did not recognize him. And they lifted their voices and wept, and each man tore his robe, and they scattered dust upon their heads toward the heavens.
Latin
Cumque elevassent procul oculos suos, non cognoverunt eum, et exclamantes ploraverunt, scissisque vestibus sparserunt pulverem super caput suum in cælum.

Original

Hebrew
English
When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job. They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust in the air over his head.

Notes

God and Satan agree to test Job, which causes his troubles and confirms his integrity (1:20–21; 2:10). None of the book's characters ever learn of this council in heaven.

Theme notes and profiles

Satan Counsel from Others

Events

Glossary

Boil Book of Job Mourning

Topics

Dust: Put on the Head in Mourning Friendship: Job and his Three |Friends| Job: A Man Who Lived in Uz: Visited by Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar As Comforters Mantle: Ripped As a Token of Grief Mourning for Calamities and Other Sorrows: Ripping the Garments Rending: (Ripping, Tearing) of Garments, an Outward Sign of Affliction Sympathy: General Scriptures Concerning