New Living Translation
Job 10:9
9Remember that you made me from dust— will you turn me back to dust so soon?
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 I am not guilty, no one can rescue me from your hands. 8“‘You formed me with your hands; you made me, yet now you completely destroy me. Remember that you made me from dust— will you turn me back to dust so soon? 10You guided my conception and formed me in the womb. 11You clothed me with skin and flesh, and you knit my bones and sinews together.
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 7:7O God, remember that my life is but a breath, and I will never again feel happiness.
- Psalms 25:6Remember, O Lord, your compassion and unfailing love, which you have shown from long ages past.
- Psalms 89:47Remember how short my life is, how empty and futile this human existence!
- Psalms 106:4Remember me, Lord, when you show favor to your people; come near and rescue me.
- Genesis 2:7Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person.
- Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you return to the ground from which you were made. For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return.”
- Isaiah 45:9“What sorrow awaits those who argue with their Creator. Does a clay pot argue with its maker? Does the clay dispute with the one who shapes it, saying, ‘Stop, you’re doing it wrong!’ Does the pot exclaim, ‘How clumsy can you be?’
- Isaiah 64:8And yet, O Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are the potter. We all are formed by your hand.
- Jeremiah 18:6“O Israel, can I not do to you as this potter has done to his clay? As the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand.
- Job 17:14What if I call the grave my father, and the maggot my mother or my sister?
- Psalms 22:15My strength has dried up like sunbaked clay. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have laid me in the dust and left me for dead.
- Psalms 90:3You turn people back to dust, saying, “Return to dust, you mortals!”
- Ecclesiastes 12:7For then the dust will return to the earth, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
- Romans 9:21When a potter makes jars out of clay, doesn’t he have a right to use the same lump of clay to make one jar for decoration and another to throw garbage into?
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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