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?
• 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?
• New Living Translation (NLT)Remember that you made me from dust— will you turn me back to dust so soon?

Context of Job 10:9

7though you know that I am not guilty and that no one can rescue me from your hand? 8“Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me? Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again? 10Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese, 11clothe 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

Words taken from the KJV.

• Rememberזָכַרzâkar · to rememberH2142
• I beseech thee, that thou hast madeעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to makeH6213
• me as the clayחֹ֫מֶרchômer · clayH2563
• and wilt thou bringשׁוּבshûb · to return: returnH7725
• me into dustעָפָר‛âphâr · dustH6083

Cross-references for Job 10:9

• Job 7:7Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath; my eyes will never see happiness again.
• Psalms 25:6Remember, Lord, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old.
• Psalms 89:47Remember how fleeting is my life. For what futility you have created all humanity!
• Psalms 106:4Remember me, Lord, when you show favor to your people, come to my aid when you save them,
• Genesis 2:7Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust 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 your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”
• Isaiah 45:9“Woe to those who quarrel with their Maker, those who are nothing but potsherds among the potsherds on the ground. Does the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘The potter has no hands’?
• Isaiah 64:8Yet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.
• Jeremiah 18:6He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel.
• Job 17:14if I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’
• Psalms 22:15My mouth is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death.
• Psalms 90:3You turn people back to dust, saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”
• Ecclesiastes 12:7and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
• Romans 9:21Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some 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

Topics related to Job 10:9

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

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• Darkness
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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