Job 2:8

2:8 Job took a shard of broken pottery to scrape himself with while he was sitting among the ashes.

Jeremiah 6:26

6:26 So I said, “Oh, my dear people, put on sackcloth

and roll in ashes.

Mourn with painful sobs

as though you had lost your only child.

For any moment now that destructive army

will come against us.”

Lamentations 3:29

3:29 Let him bury his face in the dust;

perhaps there is hope.