Job 10:9

Job 10:9 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
• New International Version (NIV)Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again?
• English Standard Version (ESV)Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust?
• New King James Version (NKJV)Remember, I pray, that You have made me like clay. And will You turn me into dust again?

Context of Job 10:9

7Although thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand? 8Thy hands have framed me and fashioned me Together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again? 10Hast thou not poured me out as milk, And curdled me like cheese? 11Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews.

Job 10:9 word by word

זְכָר־נָ֭א כִּי־כַחֹ֣מֶר עֲשִׂיתָ֑נִי וְֽאֶל־עָפָ֥ר תְּשִׁיבֵֽנִי׃Read the interlinear

• Rememberזָכַרzâkar · to rememberH2142
• bringשׁוּבshûb · to return: returnH7725
• dustעָפָר‛âphâr · dustH6083

Cross-references for Job 10:9

• Job 7:7Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye shall no more see good.
• Psalms 25:6Remember, O Jehovah, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindness; For they have been ever of old.
• Psalms 89:47Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!
• Psalms 106:4Remember me, O Jehovah, with the favor that thou bearest unto thy people; Oh visit me with thy salvation,
• Genesis 2:7And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
• Genesis 3:19in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
• Isaiah 45:9Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
• Isaiah 64:8But now, O Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
• Jeremiah 18:6O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith Jehovah. Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are ye in my hand, O house of Israel.
• Job 17:14If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, Thou artmy mother, and my sister;
• Psalms 22:15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
• Psalms 90:3Thou turnest man to destruction, And sayest, Return, ye children of men.
• Ecclesiastes 12:7and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.
• Romans 9:21Or hath not the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?

Commentaries on Job 10:9

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9Thou hast made me as the clay - Thou hast fashioned me, according to thy own mind, out of a mass of clay: after so much skill and pains expended, men might naturally suppose they were to have a permanent being; but thou hast decreed to turn them into dust!Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay - There is evident allusion here to the creation of man, and to the fact that he was moulded from the dust of the earth - a fact which would be preserved by tradition; see Genesis 2:7. The fact that God had moulded the human form as the potter moulds the clay, is one that is often referred to in the Scriptures; compare Romans 9:20-21. The object of Job in this is, probably, to recall the fact…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-13Verses 8-13 Job seems to argue with God, as if he only formed and preserved him for misery. God made us, not we ourselves. How sad that those bodies should be instruments of unrighteousness, which are capable of being temples of the Holy Ghost! But the soul is the life, the soul is the man, and this is the gift of God. If we plead with ourselves as an inducement to duty, God made me and maintains me, we may plead as an argument for mercy, Thou hast made…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8-11A series of images shows God's role in creating Job. Your hands shaped me … You molded me like clay: This is how a "potter" makes a vessel (Isaiah 45:9; Jeremiah 18:1–12). Although the potter has complete control over the clay, Job still questioned God (Isaiah 45:9; Jeremiah 18:5–12; Romans 9:20–25). return me to dust: This common theme in Job shows life's temporary nature (Job 4:19; 7:9–10, 21; 14:1–2, 10; see Genesis 3:19). You not pour me out like…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. clay--Job 10:10 proves that the reference here is, not so much to the perishable nature of the materials, as to their wonderful fashioning by the divine potter.Read the comment

Topics related to Job 10:9

• Afflictions and Adversities
• God
• Life
• Man
• Philosophy

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• Comfort
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• Poetry, Hebrew

Commentaries on Job 10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings