Job 10:9
Remember that you shaped me like a piece of clay—are you now going to turn me back into dust?
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In Context
8You made me and shaped me with your own hands, and yet you destroy me.
10You poured me out like milk, you curdled me like cheese.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19You will have to sweat to grow enough food to eat until you die and return to the ground. For you were made from dust and you will return to dust.”
Job 7:7Remember that my life is just a breath; I will not see happiness again.
Job 17:14Should I call the grave my father, and the maggot my mother or my sister?
Job 34:15all living things would immediately die and human beings would return to dust.
Psalms 25:6Remember, Lord, your compassion and trustworthy love—they are eternal!
Psalms 89:47Remember me—my life is so short! Why did you bother creating futile humanity?
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 →