New English Translation
Job 10:9
9Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?
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 you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand? 8“Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely. Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust? 10Did you not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese? 11You clothed me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews.
Read all of Job 10Job 10:9 word by word
זְכָר־נָ֭א כִּי־כַחֹ֣מֶר עֲשִׂיתָ֑נִי וְֽאֶל־עָפָ֥ר תְּשִׁיבֵֽנִי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 10:9
- Job 7:7Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.
- Psalms 25:6Remember your compassionate and faithful deeds, O Lord, for you have always acted in this manner.
- Psalms 89:47Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?
- Psalms 106:4Remember me, O Lord, when you show favor to your people! Pay attention to me, when you deliver,
- Genesis 2:7The Lord God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
- Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”
- Isaiah 45:9One who argues with his creator is in grave danger, one who is like a mere shard among the other shards on the ground! The clay should not say to the potter, “What in the world are you doing? Your work lacks skill!”
- Isaiah 64:8Yet, Lord, you are our father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the product of your labor.
- Jeremiah 18:6“I, the Lord, say: ‘O nation of Israel, can I not deal with you as this potter deals with the clay? In my hands, you, O nation of Israel, are just like the clay in this potter’s hand.’
- Job 17:14If I cry to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My Mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
- Psalms 22:15The roof of my mouth is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums. You set me in the dust of death.
- Psalms 90:3You make mankind return to the dust, and say, “Return, O people!”
- Ecclesiastes 12:7and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life’s breath returns to God who gave it.
- Romans 9:21Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary 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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