Job 10:11
Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
Job 10:11 in other translations
| BSB | You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. |
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| WEB | You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. |
| ASV | Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews. |
| YLT | Skin and flesh Thou dost put on me, And with bones and sinews dost fence me. |
| DARBY | Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews; |
| BBE | By you I was clothed with skin and flesh, and joined together with bones and muscles. |
| Webster | Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews. |
What does Job 10:11 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 10:8-13
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…
Job 10:11 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 10:11
- Ezekiel 37:4-8
Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord. So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. …
- Ephesians 4:16
From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
- Job 40:17-18
He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
- 2 Corinthians 5:2-3
For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2Co 5:2,3
fenced. Heb. hedged.
40:17,18; Eze 37:4-8; Eph 4:16
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain
Context
- Job 10:10
Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
- Job 10:11
Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
- Job 10:12
Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
Job 10:11 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Vestísteme de piel y carne, y cubrísteme de huesos y nervios. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Tu m’as revêtu de peau et de chair, tu m’as tissé d’os et de nerfs; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Mit Haut und Fleisch hast du mich bekleidet, und mit Knochen und Sehnen mich durchflochten. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Pelle et carnibus vestisti me; ossibus et nervis compegisti me. |