Job 10:9
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Remember, I beseech you, that you have made me as the clay; and will you bring me into dust again?
American King James Version (AKJV)
Remember, I beseech you, that you have made me as the clay; and will you bring me into dust again?
American Standard Version (ASV)
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Basic English Translation (BBE)
O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?
Webster's Revision
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
World English Bible
Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
English Revised Version (ERV)
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Definitions for Job 10:9
Clarke's Job 10:9 Bible Commentary
Thou hast made me as the clay - Thou hast fashioned me, according to thy own mind, out of a mass of clay: after so much skill and pains expended, men might naturally suppose they were to have a permanent being; but thou hast decreed to turn them into dust!
Barnes's Job 10:9 Bible Commentary
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?
Wesley's Job 10:9 Bible Commentary
10:9 Clay - As a potter makes a vessel of clay; so this may note both the frailty of man's nature, which of itself decays and perishes, and doth not need such violent shocks to overthrow it; and the excellency of the Divine artifice commended from the meanness of the materials; which is an argument why God should not destroy it. Again - I must die by the course of nature, and therefore while I do live, give me some ease and comfort.