Job 10:9

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

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WEBBE

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

BSB

Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?

KJV

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

ASV

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again?

BBE

O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?

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זְכָר־ ze·khor- remember H2142 נָא na' please H4994 כִּי־ ki- that H3588 כַחֹמֶר kha·cho·mer like (the) clay H2563 עֲשִׂיתָנִי 'a·si·ta·ni you made me H6213 וְאֶל־ ve·'el- and to H413 עָפָר 'a·far dust H6083 תְּשִׁיבֵנִי te·shi·ve·ni will you turn back? me H7725

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 8–13

Job seems to argue with God, as if he only formed and preserved him for misery. God made us, not we ourselves. How sad that those bodies should be instruments of unrighteousness, which are capable of being temples of the Holy Ghost! But the soul is the life, the soul is the man, and this is the gift of God. If we plead with ourselves as an inducement to duty, God made me and maintains me, we may plead as an argument for mercy, Thou hast made me, do thou new-make me; I am thine, save me.

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.