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Myles Coverdale Bible

Job 10:9

O remembre (I beseke the) how that thou madest me of the moulde of the earth, and shalt brynge me to earth agayne.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   God;   Life;   Man;   Philosophy;   Thompson Chain Reference - Body;   Dust;   Mortality;   Mortality-Immortality;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Man;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Body;   Flesh;   Nature, Natural;   Providence of God;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Earth;   Providence;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Dust;   Pottery in Bible Times;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Heredity;   Job;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Potter ;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bring;   Job, Book of;   Poetry, Hebrew;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Anatomy;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Please remember that you formed me like clay.Will you now return me to dust?
Hebrew Names Version
Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
King James Version
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
English Standard Version
Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust?
New Century Version
Remember that you molded me like a piece of clay. Will you now turn me back into dust?
New English Translation
Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?
Amplified Bible
'Remember now, that You have made me as clay; So will You turn me into dust again?
New American Standard Bible
'Remember that You have made me as clay; Yet would You turn 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?
Geneva Bible (1587)
Remeber, I pray thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and wilt thou bring me into dust againe?
Legacy Standard Bible
Remember now, that You have made me as clay;And would You turn me into dust again?
Berean Standard Bible
Please remember that You molded me like clay. Will You now return me to dust?
Contemporary English Version
Remember that you molded me like a piece of clay. So don't turn me back into dust once again.
Complete Jewish Bible
Please remember that you made me, like clay; will you return me to dust?
Darby Translation
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as clay, and wilt bring me into dust again.
Easy-to-Read Version
Remember, you molded me like clay. Will you turn me into clay again?
George Lamsa Translation
Remember that thou hast made me as clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Good News Translation
Remember that you made me from clay; are you going to crush me back to dust?
Lexham English Bible
Please remember that you made me like clay, but you turn me into dust again?
Literal Translation
Remember, I beseech You, that You have formed me as clay; and will You bring me to dust again?
American Standard Version
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Bible in Basic English
O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Remember, I beseech Thee, that Thou hast fashioned me as clay; and wilt Thou bring me into dust again?
King James Version (1611)
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and wilt thou bring me into dust againe?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Remember I besech thee that thou madest me as the moulde of the earth, and shalt bring me into dust againe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Remember that thou hast made me as clay, and thou dost turn me again to earth.
English Revised Version
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y preye, haue thou mynde, that thou madist me as cley, and schalt brynge me ayen in to dust.
Update Bible Version
Remember, I urge you, that you have fashioned me as clay; And will you bring me into dust again?
Webster's Bible Translation
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
New King James Version
Remember, I pray, that You have made me like clay. And will You turn me into dust again?
New Living Translation
Remember that you made me from dust— will you turn me back to dust so soon?
New Life Bible
Remember that You have made me as clay. Would You turn me into dust again?
New Revised Standard
Remember that you fashioned me like clay; and will you turn me to dust again?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Remember, I pray thee, that, as clay, thou didst make me, and, unto dust, thou wilt cause me to return.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and thou wilt bring me into dust
Revised Standard Version
Remember that thou hast made me of clay; and wilt thou turn me to dust again?
Young's Literal Translation
Remember, I pray Thee, That as clay Thou hast made me, And unto dust Thou dost bring me back.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Remember now, that You have made me as clay; And would You turn me into dust again?

Contextual Overview

8 Thy hondes haue made me, & fashioned me alltogether rounde aboute, wilt thou then destroye me sodely? 9 O remembre (I beseke the) how that thou madest me of the moulde of the earth, and shalt brynge me to earth agayne. 10 Hast thou not milked me, as it were mylck: and turned me to cruddes like chese? 11 Thou hast couered me with skynne and flesh, and ioyned me together with bones & synowes. 12 Thou hast graunted me life, and done me good: and the diligent hede that thou tokest vpon me, hath preserued my sprete. 13 Though thou hydest these thinges in thine hert, yet am I sure, that thou remembrest the all.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Remember: Job 7:7, Psalms 25:6, Psalms 25:7, Psalms 25:18, Psalms 89:47, Psalms 106:4

thou hast: Genesis 2:7, Genesis 3:19, Isaiah 45:9, Isaiah 64:8, Jeremiah 18:6

into dust again: Job 17:14, Psalms 22:15, Psalms 90:3, Ecclesiastes 12:7, Romans 9:21

Reciprocal: Job 4:19 - dwell Job 33:6 - I also Psalms 31:7 - for Psalms 103:14 - we are dust Psalms 139:13 - For thou Psalms 139:15 - when I Ecclesiastes 3:20 - all are Lamentations 5:1 - Remember

Cross-References

Genesis 6:4
There were giauntes also in the worlde at that tyme. For whan the children of God had lyen with the daughters of men, and begotten them children, ye same (children) became mightie in the worlde, and men of renowne.
Genesis 6:11
Notwithstondinge ye earth was corrupte in ye sight of God, and full of myschefe.
Genesis 13:13
But ye men of Sodome were wicked, and synned exceadingly agaynst the LORDE.
Genesis 25:27
And whan the boies were growne vp, Esau became an hunter, & an hußbande man. As for Iacob, he was a symple man, and dwelt in the tentes.
Genesis 27:30
Now whan Isaac had made an ende of blessynge, and Iacob was scace gone out from his father Isaac, his brother Esau came from his huntinge,
2 Chronicles 28:22
Morouer kinge Achas trespaced yet more against the LORDE euen in his trouble,
Psalms 52:7
Sela.The rightuous shal se this, & feare, and laugh him to scorne.
Jeremiah 16:16
Beholde, (saieth the LORDE) I will sende out many fishers to take them, and after yt wil I sende out many hunters to hunte the out, from all mountaynes and hilles ad out of the caues of stones.
Ezekiel 13:18
& saye: Thus saieth the LORDE God: Wo be vnto you, that sowe pilowes vnder all arme holes, and bolsters vnder the heades both of yonge and olde, to catch soules withall. For when ye haue gotten the soules of my people in youre captiuyte, ye promyse them life,
Micah 7:2
There is not a godly man vpo earth, there is not one rightuous amoge me. They laboure all to shed bloude, & euery ma hunteth his brother to death:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay,.... Not of the clay, though man was made originally of the dust of the earth, and the bodies of men are houses of clay, earthen vessels, and earthly tabernacles, but "as the clay"; either as the clay is wrought in the hand of the potter, and worked into what form, and made into what vessel he pleases, so are men in the hand of God, made by him in what form, and for what use and end he thinks fit; or rather this denotes not the likeness of the operation, but the likeness of the matter of the human body to clay: not for the impurity of it; for though man is in a state and condition comparable to the mire and clay, this he has brought himself into by sin, and not the Lord; he made man upright, but man has made himself sinful and polluted; but for the brittleness of it; as a vessel made of clay is brittle and easily broke to pieces, and cannot bear much weight, or any heavy stroke; so the body of man is weak and frail, and feeble; its strength is not the strength of stones, and its flesh brass, but clay: and this Job humbly entreats the Lord would "remember", and that "now" h; immediately; and deal mildly and mercifully with him, since he was not able to bear the weight of his hand, which would soon, crush him and break him to pieces; not that God forgets this, for he remembers man's frame and composition, that he is but dust; that he is flesh, and a wind or vapour that passes away: but he may seem to do so, when he sorely afflicts, and his hand lies heavy, and he does not remove it, but continues it, and rather in creases the affliction; and therefore, as the Lord allows his people to put him in remembrance, Job here desires that he would show himself, in his providential dealings with him, that he was mindful of his natural frailty and infirmity; see Job 7:12

Psalms 78:3;

and wilt thou bring me into dust again? to the dust of death; to the original of which he was made; and that so soon, and at once; or, "and unto dust will return me?" as Mr. Broughton and others i, according to the original sentence, "dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return", Genesis 3:19; and which Job expected, and will be the case of all men, Ecclesiastes 12:7; and therefore he thought that this might suffice, that it was enough that he should die in a little while through the course of nature, and therefore desires he might have some respite and ease while he did live; he could not see there was any occasion to press him so hard, and follow him so close with afflictions one after another, or be so rough with him and quick upon him; since in a short time his brittle clay would break of itself, and he should drop into the dust and lie decaying there, as it was of old decreed he should.

h נא "nunc", Drusius; so the Targum. i תשיבני "reducturus", Schmidt, Schultens; "reduces me?" V. L. Beza, Michaelis; "redire facies me?" Pagninus, Montanus, Bolducius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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?

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 10:9. 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!


 
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