New American Standard Bible 2020
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
7According to Your knowledge I am indeed not guilty, Yet there is no one to save me from Your hand. 8‘Your hands fashioned and made me altogether, Yet would You destroy me? Remember that You have made me as clay; Yet would You turn me into dust again? 10Did You not pour me out like milk, And curdle me like cheese, 11Clothe me with skin and flesh, And intertwine me with bones and tendons?
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זְכָר־נָ֭א כִּי־כַחֹ֣מֶר עֲשִׂיתָ֑נִי וְֽאֶל־עָפָ֥ר תְּשִׁיבֵֽנִי׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 10:9
- Job 7:7“Remember that my life is a mere breath; My eye will not see goodness again.
- Psalms 25:6Remember, Lord, Your compassion and Your faithfulness, For they have been from of old.
- Psalms 89:47Remember what my lifespan is; For what futility You have created all the sons of mankind!
- Psalms 106:4Remember me, Lord, in Your favor toward Your people. Visit me with Your salvation,
- Genesis 2:7Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living person.
- Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your face You shall eat bread, Until you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return.”
- Isaiah 45:9“Woe to the one who quarrels with his Maker-- A piece of pottery among the other earthenware pottery pieces! Will the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you doing?’ Or the thing you are making say, ‘He has no hands’?
- Isaiah 64:8But now, Lord, You are our Father; We are the clay, and You our potter, And all of us are the work of Your hand.
- Jeremiah 18:6“Am I not able, house of Israel, to deal with you as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, house of Israel.
- Job 17:14If I call to the grave, ‘You are my father’; To the maggot, ‘my mother and my sister’;
- Psalms 22:15My strength is dried up like a piece of pottery, And my tongue clings to my jaws; And You lay me in the dust of death.
- Psalms 90:3You turn mortals back into dust And say, “Return, you sons of mankind.”
- Ecclesiastes 12:7then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
- Romans 9:21Or does the potter not have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one object for honorable use, and another for common use?
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
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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
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