Job 10:9
Remember, I ask you, that you have fashioned me like clay, and you will reduce me to dust.
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In The King James Version
In Context
8Your hands have made me and formed me all around, and, in this way, do you suddenly throw me away?
10Have you not extracted me like milk and curdled me like cheese?
Cross References
Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, until you return to the earth from which you were taken. For dust you are, and unto dust you shall return.”
Job 7:7Remember that my life is wind, and my eye will not return to see good things.
Job 17:14I have said to decay and to worms: “You are my father, my mother, and my sister.”
Job 34:15All flesh will fail together, and man will return to ashes.
Psalms 25:6I will wash my hands among the innocent, and I will surround your altar, O Lord,
Matthew Henry on Job 10:9-14
8 Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. 9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again? 10 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese? 11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews. 12 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit. 13 And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.… Read the whole commentary →