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New Century Version

Job 10:9

Remember that you molded me like a piece of clay. Will you now turn me back into dust?

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 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?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O remembre (I beseke the) how that thou madest me of the moulde of the earth, and shalt brynge me to earth agayne.
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 "Your hands shaped and made me. Do you now turn around and destroy me? 9 Remember that you molded me like a piece of clay. Will you now turn me back into dust? 10 You formed me inside my mother like cheese formed from milk. 11 You dressed me with skin and flesh; you sewed me together with bones and muscles. 12 You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your care you watched over my life. 13 "But in your heart you hid other plans. I know this was in your mind.

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
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days and also later. That was when the sons of God had sexual relations with the daughters of human beings. These women gave birth to children, who became famous and were the mighty warriors of long ago.
Genesis 6:11
People on earth did what God said was evil, and violence was everywhere.
Genesis 13:13
Now the people of Sodom were very evil and were always sinning against the Lord .
Genesis 25:27
When the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled hunter. He loved to be out in the fields. But Jacob was a quiet man and stayed among the tents.
Genesis 27:30
Isaac finished blessing Jacob. Then, just as Jacob left his father Isaac, Esau came in from hunting.
2 Chronicles 28:22
During Ahaz's troubles he was even more unfaithful to the Lord .
Psalms 52:7
"Look what happened to the man who did not depend on God but depended on his money. He grew strong by his evil plans."
Jeremiah 16:16
"I will soon send for many fishermen to come to this land," says the Lord . "And they will catch the people of Judah. After that, I will send for many hunters to come to this land. And they will hunt the people of Judah on every mountain and hill and in the cracks of the rocks.
Ezekiel 13:18
Say, ‘This is what the Lord God says: How terrible it will be for women who sew magic charms on their wrists and make veils of every length to trap people! You ruin the lives of my people but try to save your own lives.
Micah 7:2
All of the faithful people are gone; there is not one good person left in this country. Everyone is waiting to kill someone; everyone is trying to trap someone else.

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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