Job 2:8

"And he took. potsherd to scrape himself": So intense was the itching from the sores that Job took. broken piece of pottery to scrape himself. Yet note that Satan still has no avenue of attack in the character of Job. "His point of entry is physical" (McKenna p. 45). "While he was sitting among the ashes": "This describes the dunghill outside of town. Here the rubbish was thrown. When tragedy came, men came here to sit (Isaiah 47:1; Jonah 2:6), or roll in the ashes (Jeremiah 6:26; Micah 2:10); or to throw ashes on their heads (Ezekiel 72:30)" (Strauss p. 19).