Job 10:8
Your hands have taken pains about me, || And they make me together all around, || And You swallow me up!
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
In Context
7For You know that I am not wicked, || And there is no deliverer from Your hand.
9Please remember || That You have made me as clay, || And You bring me back to dust.
Cross References
Genesis 6:6and YHWH regrets that He has made man in the earth, and He grieves Himself—to His heart.
Job 10:3Is it good for You that You oppress? That You despise the labor of Your hands, || And shine on the counsel of the wicked?
Psalms 139:15My substance was not hid from You, || When I was made in secret, || Curiously worked in the lower part of earth.
Jeremiah 18:3and I go down [to] the potter’s house, and behold, he is doing a 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 →