Job 10:9 KJV
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Thou and Ye
- thee, thou one person
In the King James Bible, thee, thou, thy, and thine always mean one person, and ye, you, and your more than one: a difference modern English lost. Why keep these words?
Matthew Henry
- He pleads with God as his MakerJob 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...
Thompson Chains
Parallel Passages
- Psalms 139:14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
From Thompson’s Chain-Reference Bible (1908).
Cross References
- Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
- Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
- Isaiah 64:8 But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
- Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
- Jeremiah 18:6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
- Job 7:7 O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
- Job 17:14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
- Psalms 22:15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
- Psalms 25:6–7 Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old. …
- Psalms 25:18 Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
- Psalms 89:47 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
- Psalms 90:3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
- Psalms 106:4 Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;
- Isaiah 45:9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
- Romans 9:21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
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Topics
- Afflictions and adversities Prayer in
- God Unclassified scriptures relating to God
- Job Complaints of, and replies by his three friends to
- Life Brevity and uncertainty of Life
- Man Created
- Murmuring Job
- Philosophy Philosophical inductions and deductions relating to God and His providence
Hebrew and Strong’s
- Remember זְכָר zĕkār זָכַר Verb · qal imperative, second person masculine singular
- I beseech thee, that thou hast made נָא nāʾ Exhortation כִּי kî Conjunction עֲשִׂיתָנִי ʿăśîtānî עָשָׂה Verb · qal perfect, second person masculine singular · with suffix: first person common singular
- me as the clay כַחֹמֶר kaḥōmer חֹמֶר Noun · masculine singular · with preposition with the
- and wilt thou bring תְּשִׁיבֵנִי tĕšîbēnî שׁוּב Verb · hiphil imperfect, second person masculine singular · with suffix: first person common singular
- me into dust וְאֶל wĕʾel Preposition · with and עָפָר ʿāpār עָפָר Noun · masculine singular
- again שׁוּב shûwb
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex, Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible · CC BY 4.0
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