Job 2:12

Overview - Job 2
Satan appearing again before God, obtains further leave to tempt Job.
He smites him with sore boils.
Job reproves his wife, who moved him to curse God.
11 His three friends console with him in silence.
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Job 2:12  (King James Version)
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.
 


knew him
19:14 Ruth 1:19-21 ; Lamentations 4:7 Lamentations 4:8

their voice
Genesis 27:34 ; Judges 2:4 ; 1 Samuel 11:4 ; 30:4 2 Samuel 13:36 ; Esther 4:1

they rent
1:20

sprinkled dust upon
Nehemiah 9:1 ; Lamentations 2:10 ; Ezekiel 27:30 ; Revelation 18:19