Job 10:11
9 Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
10 Did You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?
You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
12 You have granted me life and loving devotion, and Your care has preserved my spirit.
13 Yet You concealed these things in Your heart, and I know that this was in Your mind:
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
- KJV
- Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
- WEB
- You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
- ASV
- Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews.
- DARBY
- Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews;
- BLB
- [With] skin and flesh You clothed me, and with bones and sinews You knit me together.
- ÅB
- Med hud og kjøtt kledde du meg, og med ben og sener gjennomvevde du meg.
- OTB
- Dekket meg med hud og kjøtt,
Og vevde meg sammen med ben og sener? - B1930
- Med hud og kjøtt klædde du mig, og med ben og sener gjennemvevde du mig.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ezekiel 37:4–8
And He said to me, “Prophesy concerning these bones and tell them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD!
Read in contextEphesians 4:16
From Him the whole body, fitted and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love through the work of each individual part.
Read in contextJob 40:17–18
His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are tightly knit.
Read in context2 Corinthians 5:2–3
For in this tent we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling,
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