Job 10 · Verse 8

Job 10:8

Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
Job 10:8, King James Version

Job 10:8 in other translations

BSBYour hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?
WEB“‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.
ASVThy hands have framed me and fashioned me Together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
YLTThy hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together round about, And Thou swallowest me up!
DARBYThy hands have bound me together and made me as one, round about; yet dost thou swallow me up!
BBEYour hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction.
WebsterThy hands have made me and fashioned me in all my parts; yet thou dost destroy me.

What does Job 10:8 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
8. Made--with pains; implying a work of difficulty and art; applying to God language applicable only to man. together round about--implying that the human body is a complete unity, the parts of which on all sides will bear the closest scrutiny.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 8 Thine hands have made me - Thou art well acquainted with human nature, for thou art its author. And fashioned me together round about - All my powers and faculties have been planned and executed by thyself. It is thou who hast refined the materials out of which I have been formed, and modified them into that excellent symmetry and order in which they are now found; so that the union and harmony of the different parts, (יחד yachad), and their arrangement and completion, (סביב sabib), proclaim equally thy wisdom, skill, power, and goodness. Yet thou dost destroy me - ותבלעני vatteballeeni, "and thou wilt swallow me up." Men generally care for and prize those works on which they have spent most time, skill, and pains: but, although thou hast formed me with such incredible skill and labor, yet thou art about to destroy me! How dreadful an evil must sin be, when, on its account, God has pronounced the sentence of death on all mankind; and that body, so curiously and skilfully formed, must be decomposed, and reduced to dust!

Adam Clarke, 1831 · 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 for mercy, Thou hast made me, do thou new-make me; I am thine, save me.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Job 10:8 in the original Hebrew

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יָדֶ֣יךָya.Dei.khahands yourH3027
עִ֭צְּבוּנִי'I.tze.vu.nithey formed meH6087
וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֑וּנִיvai.ya.'a.Su.niand they made meH6213
יַ֥חַדYa.chadtogetherH3162
סָ֝בִ֗יבsa.Vivall aroundH5439
וַֽתְּבַלְּעֵֽנִי\׃Va.te.va.le.'E.niand you have swallowed meH1104

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 10:8

  • Psalms 119:73

    י JOD. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.

  • Job 10:3

    Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

  • Isaiah 43:7

    Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.

  • Jeremiah 18:3-10

    Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 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. …

  • Genesis 6:6-7

    And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
hands.
Ps 119:73; Isa 43:7
have made me. Heb. took pains about me. yet thou.
3; Ge 6:6,7; Jer 18:3-10

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Context

  • Job 10:7

    Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.

  • Job 10:8

    Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

  • Job 10:9

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

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Job 10:8 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Tus manos me formaron y me compusieron todo en contorno: ¿y así me deshaces?
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Tes mains m’ont formé et m’ont façonné tout à l’entour en un tout, et tu m’engloutis!
German
Elberfelder 1871		Deine Hände haben mich ganz gebildet und gestaltet um und um, und du verschlingst mich!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Manus tuæ fecerunt me, et plasmaverunt me totum in circuitu: et sic repente præcipitas me?