Job 10 · Verse 9

Job 10:9

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Job 10:9, King James Version

Job 10:9 in other translations

BSBPlease remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
WEBRemember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
ASVRemember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again?
YLTRemember, I pray Thee, That as clay Thou hast made me, And unto dust Thou dost bring me back.
DARBYRemember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as clay, and wilt bring me into dust again.
BBEO keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?
WebsterRemember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

What does Job 10:9 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
9. clay--Job 10:10 proves that the reference here is, not so much to the perishable nature of the materials, as to their wonderful fashioning by the divine potter.

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 9 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!

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…

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Job 10:9 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

זְכָר\־ze.khor-rememberH2142
נָ֭אna'pleaseH4994
כִּי\־ki-thatH3588
כַחֹ֣מֶרkha.Cho.merlike <the> clayH2563
עֲשִׂיתָ֑נִי'a.si.Ta.niyou made meH6213
וְֽאֶל\־ve.'el-and toH413
עָפָ֥ר'a.FardustH6083
תְּשִׁיבֵֽנִי\׃te.shi.Ve.niwill you turn back? meH7725

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

Cross references for Job 10:9

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Ecclesiastes 12:7

    Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • Psalms 25:6-7

    Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old. Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness’ sake, O Lord.

  • 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 25:18

    Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.

  • Psalms 106:4

    Remember me, O Lord, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;

  • Psalms 89:47

    Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Remember.
7:7; Ps 25:6,7,18; 89:47; 106:4
thou hast.
Ge 2:7; 3:19; Isa 45:9; 64:8; Jer 18:6
into dust again.
17:14; Ps 22:15; 90:3; Ec 12:7; Ro 9:21

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • 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?

  • Job 10:10

    Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?

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Job 10:9 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Acuérdate ahora que como á lodo me diste forma: ¿y en polvo me has de tornar?
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Souviens-toi, je te prie, que tu m’as façonné comme de l’argile, et que tu me feras retourner à la poussière.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Gedenke doch, daß du wie Ton mich gestaltet-und zum Staube willst du mich zurückkehren lassen!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Memento, quæso, quod sicut lutum feceris me, et in pulverem reduces me.