Job 10:11

Job 10:11 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
• New International Version (NIV)clothe me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews?
• English Standard Version (ESV)You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Clothe me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews?

Context of Job 10:11

9Remember that you made me, like someone who uses clay to make things. Will you now make me become dust again? 10You poured me like milk into my mother. There you put my body together, like milk that becomes cheese. You joined my bones together, and you covered them with skin. 12You gave me life and you loved me faithfully. You took care of me and you kept me safe. 13But now I know what you have been thinking. I have discovered your secret.

Job 10:11 word by word

ע֣וֹר וּ֭בָשָׂר תַּלְבִּישֵׁ֑נִי וּֽבַעֲצָמ֥וֹת וְ֝גִידִ֗ים תְּסֹכְכֵֽנִי׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Thou hast clothedלָבֵשׁlâbash lâbêsh · to clotheH3847
• me with skinעוֹר‛ôr · skinH5785
• and fleshבָּשָׂרbâώâr · fleshH1320
• and hast fencedשׂוּךְώûk · to hedgeH7753
• me with bonesעֶ֫צֶם‛etsem · boneH6106
• and sinewsגִּידgîyd · sinewH1517

Cross-references for Job 10:11

• 2 Corinthians 5:2Now, while we are in our body here on earth, we cry inside ourselves. We want to go and live in our house that is in heaven.
• Job 40:17Their tails are like the branches of a cedar tree. Their legs are thick and very strong.
• Ezekiel 37:4Then he said to me, ‘Prophesy to these bones. Say to them, “Dry bones, listen to the Lord's message!
• Ephesians 4:16As its head, he helps the whole body to grow well. Each part joins with the other parts so that the whole body becomes strong. As each separate part does its proper work, we love each other more and more.

Commentaries on Job 10:11

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh - This refers, undoubtedly, to the formation of man in his foetal existence, and is designed to denote that the whole organization of the human frame was to be traced to God. Grotius remarks that this is the order in which the infant is formed - that the skin appears first, then the flesh, then the harder parts of the frame. On this subject, the reader may consult Dunglison‘s Physiology, vol. ii. p. 340ff. And hast…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. 1111. fenced--or "inlaid" (Psa 139:15); "curiously wrought" [Umbreit]. In the foetus the skin appears first, then the flesh, then the harder parts.Read the comment

Topics related to Job 10:11

• Anatomy
• God
• Philosophy
• Physiology
• Sinews

In the dictionaries

• Comfort
• Darkness
• Grant
• Fence
• Poetry, Hebrew
• Sinew

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