Job 10:8
Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
In Context
9O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?
Cross References
Genesis 6:6And the Lord had sorrow because he had made man on the earth, and grief was in his heart.
Job 10:3What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?
Psalms 139:15My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth.
Jeremiah 18:3Then I went down to the potter's house, and he was doing his work on the stones.
Matthew Henry on Job 10:2-8
Job's Reply to Bildad. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. 2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; show me wherefore thou contendest with me. 3 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked? 4 Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth? 5 Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days, 6 That thou… Read the whole commentary →