the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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THE MESSAGE
Job 10:9
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Please remember that you formed me like clay.Will you now return me to dust?
Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust?
Remember that you molded me like a piece of clay. Will you now turn me back into dust?
Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?
'Remember now, that You have made me as clay; So will You turn me into dust again?
'Remember that You have made me as clay; Yet would You turn me into dust again?
Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
Remeber, I pray thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and wilt thou bring me into dust againe?
Remember now, that You have made me as clay;And would You turn me into dust again?
Please remember that You molded me like clay. Will You now return me to dust?
Remember that you molded me like a piece of clay. So don't turn me back into dust once again.
Please remember that you made me, like clay; will you return me to dust?
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as clay, and wilt bring me into dust again.
Remember, you molded me like clay. Will you turn me into clay again?
Remember that thou hast made me as clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Remember that you made me from clay; are you going to crush me back to dust?
Please remember that you made me like clay, but you turn me into dust again?
Remember, I beseech You, that You have formed me as clay; and will You bring me to dust again?
O remembre (I beseke the) how that thou madest me of the moulde of the earth, and shalt brynge me to earth agayne.
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again?
O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?
Remember, I beseech Thee, that Thou hast fashioned me as clay; and wilt Thou bring me into dust again?
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and wilt thou bring me into dust againe?
Remember I besech thee that thou madest me as the moulde of the earth, and shalt bring me into dust againe.
Remember that thou hast made me as clay, and thou dost turn me again to earth.
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Y preye, haue thou mynde, that thou madist me as cley, and schalt brynge me ayen in to dust.
Remember, I urge you, that you have fashioned me as clay; And will you bring me into dust again?
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Remember, I pray, that You have made me like clay. And will You turn me into dust again?
Remember that you made me from dust— will you turn me back to dust so soon?
Remember that You have made me as clay. Would You turn me into dust again?
Remember that you fashioned me like clay; and will you turn me to dust again?
Remember, I pray thee, that, as clay, thou didst make me, and, unto dust, thou wilt cause me to return.
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and thou wilt bring me into dust
Remember that thou hast made me of clay; and wilt thou turn me to dust again?
Remember, I pray Thee, That as clay Thou hast made me, And unto dust Thou dost bring me back.
'Remember now, that You have made me as clay; And would You turn me into dust again?
Contextual Overview
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
This was back in the days (and also later) when there were giants in the land. The giants came from the union of the sons of God and the daughters of men. These were the mighty men of ancient lore, the famous ones.
As far as God was concerned, the Earth had become a sewer; there was violence everywhere. God took one look and saw how bad it was, everyone corrupt and corrupting—life itself corrupt to the core.
The people of Sodom were evil—flagrant sinners against God .
The boys grew up. Esau became an expert hunter, an outdoorsman. Jacob was a quiet man preferring life indoors among the tents. Isaac loved Esau because he loved his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
And then right after Isaac had blessed Jacob and Jacob had left, Esau showed up from the hunt. He also had prepared a hearty meal. He came to his father and said, "Let my father get up and eat of his son's game, that he may give me his personal blessing."
But King Ahaz didn't learn his lesson—at the very time that everyone was turning against him, he continued to be against God ! He offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus. He had just been defeated by Damascus; he thought, "If I worship the gods who helped Damascus, those gods just might help me, too." But things only went from bad to worse: first Ahaz in ruins and then the country. He cleaned out The Temple of God of everything useful and valuable, boarded up the doors of The Temple, and then went out and set up pagan shrines for his own use all over Jerusalem. And not only in Jerusalem, but all over Judah—neighborhood shrines for worshiping any and every god on sale. And was God ever angry!
"Now, watch for what comes next: I'm going to assemble a bunch of fishermen." God 's Decree! "They'll go fishing for my people and pull them in for judgment. Then I'll send out a party of hunters, and they'll hunt them out in all the mountains, hills, and caves. I'm watching their every move. I haven't lost track of a single one of them, neither them nor their sins.
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!
