Job 10:9
7 though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
8 Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?
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?
11 You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
- KJV
- Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
- WEB
- Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
- ASV
- Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again?
- DARBY
- Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as clay, and wilt bring me into dust again.
- BLB
- Remember, please, that You made me as [from] the clay. And will You return me to the dust?
- ÅB
- Kom i hu at du har dannet meg som leiren, og nå lar du meg vende tilbake til støvet igjen!
- OTB
- Husk at Du laget meg som leire;
Og ville Du igjen gjøre meg til støv? - B1930
- Kom i hu at du har dannet mig som leret, og nu lar du mig atter vende tilbake til støvet!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 2:7
Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
Read in contextIsaiah 64:8
But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
Read in contextGenesis 3:19
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
Read in contextEcclesiastes 12:7
before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Read in contextIsaiah 45:9
Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker— one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?
Read in contextJeremiah 18:6
“O house of Israel, declares the LORD, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.
Read in contextRomans 9:21
Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?
Read in contextPsalms 25:6–7
Remember, O LORD, Your compassion and loving devotion, for they are from age to age.
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