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7 Although You know that I am not wicked,
And there is no one who can deliver from Your hand?
8 ‘Youra hands have made me and fashioned me,
An intricate unity;
Yet You would bdestroy me. 
9 Remember, I pray, athat You have made me like clay.
And will You turn me into dust again? 
10 aDid You not pour me out like milk,
And curdle me like cheese, 
11 Clothe me with skin and flesh,
And knit me together with bones and sinews?
12 You have granted me life and favor,
And Your care has preserved my spirit.
13 ‘And these things You have hidden in Your heart;
I know that this was with You:
14 If I sin, then aYou mark me,
And will not acquit me of my iniquity. 
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Job 10:9

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay - There is evident allusion here to the creation of man, and to the fact that he was moulded from the dust of the earth - a fact which would be preserved by tradition; see Genesis 2:7. The fact that God had moulded the human form as the potter moulds the clay, is one that is often referred to in the Scriptures; compare Romans 9:20-21. The object of Job in this is, probably, to recall the fact that God, out of clay, had formed the noble structure, man, and to ask whether it was his intention to reduce that structure again to its former worthless condition - to destroy its beauty, and to efface the remembrance of his workmanship? Was it becoming God thus to blot out every memorial of his own power and skill in moulding the human frame?




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Job 10:9:

Job 10:8
Ecclesiastes 11:3-6
Isaiah 47:1

 

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