Job 10:9

Translations

Modern

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

Traditional

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

Literal

Remember, please, that You made me as from the clay. And will You return me to the dust?

Latin

Memento, quæso, quod sicut lutum feceris me, et in pulverem reduces me.

Original

Hebrew

English

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

Notes

Job 10:8–11

A series of images shows God's role in creating Job.
Your hands shaped me … You molded me like clay: This is how a "potter" makes a vessel (Isaiah 45:9; Jeremiah 18:1–12). Although the potter has complete control over the clay, Job still questioned God (Isaiah 45:9; Jeremiah 18:5–12; Romans 9:20–25).
return me to dust: This common theme in Job shows life's temporary nature (Job 4:19; 7:9–10, 21; 14:1–2, 10; see Genesis 3:19).
You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese: The Hebrew terms create a lively image of a new born baby still covered with vernix (a creamy substance).

Events

Job's Trial

Related verses

Genesis 2:7
Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
Isaiah 64:8
But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
Genesis 3:19
By 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.”
Ecclesiastes 12:7
…before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Jeremiah 18:6
“O house of Israel, declares the LORD, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.
Isaiah 45:9
Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker—one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?
Romans 9:21
Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?
Psalm 25:6–7
Remember, O LORD, Your compassion and loving devotion, for they are from age to age.
Job 17:14
…and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
Psalm 90:3
You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”
Job 7:7
Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.
Psalm 89:47
Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!

Glossary

Book of Job

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In God: Creator of Man God: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Life: Brevity and Uncertainty of Man: Created Man: Made by God in his Successive Generations Philosophy: Philosophical Inductions and Deductions Relating to God and his Providence

Job 10:9

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