Job 10:9
Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
8Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?
10Did You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?
Cross References
Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
Job 7:7Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.
Job 17:14and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
Job 34:15all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.
Psalms 25:6Remember, O LORD, Your compassion and loving devotion, for they are from age to age.
Psalms 89:47Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!
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 →