When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.

  • KJV 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.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    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 threw dust upon their heads toward heaven.

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Cross-references (15)

Passages linked to Job 2:12 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Lamentations 2:10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground. They keep silence. They have cast up dust on their heads. They have clothed themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
  • Ezekiel 27:30 and will cause their voice to be heard over you, and will cry bitterly. They will cast up dust on their heads. They will wallow in the ashes.
  • Joshua 7:6 Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before Yahweh’s ark until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.
  • Nehemiah 9:1 Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, with sackcloth, and dirt on them.
  • Job 1:20 Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.
  • Genesis 27:34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, my father.”
  • Judges 2:4 When Yahweh’s angel spoke these words to all the children of Israel, the people lifted up their voice and wept.
  • Ruth 1:19-21 So they both went until they came to Bethlehem. When they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was excited about them, and they asked, “Is this Naomi?” She said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since Yahweh has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?”
  • 1 Samuel 11:4 Then the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, and spoke these words in the ears of the people, then all the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
  • 1 Samuel 30:4 Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no more power to weep.
  • 2 Samuel 13:36 As soon as he had finished speaking, behold, the king’s sons came, and lifted up their voice, and wept. The king also and all his servants wept bitterly.
  • Esther 4:1 Now when Mordecai found out all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the middle of the city, and wailed loudly and bitterly.
  • Job 19:14 My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.
  • Lamentations 4:7-8 Her nobles were purer than snow. They were whiter than milk. They were more ruddy in body than rubies. Their polishing was like sapphire. Their appearance is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like a stick.
  • Revelation 18:19 They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth!’ For she is made desolate in one hour.

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Explain this verse (15 sources)

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain This was also a ceremony, which they used in…

This was also a ceremony, which they used in those countries, as the renting of their clothes in sign of sorrow, etc.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Job 2:12 And when they lifted up their eyes…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Afar off, to wit, at some convenient distance from…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain So they sat down with him upon the ground…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 12. They rent every one his mantle] I…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Job 2:12. When they lifted up their eyes afar…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain And when they lifted up their eyes afar off…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Heaven. This denoted mourning or indignation, Josue vii. 6.,…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain toward heaven--They threw ashes violently upwards, that they might…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 12. They lifted up their voice — Sir John…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 12. knew him not] He was so altered and…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (12) And knew him not.—Compare the converse statement descriptive…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And when they lifted up their eyes afar off,…
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 they lifted up their eyes
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 2:12 they scarcely recognized him: This expression indicates the…

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