Job 10:9
Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
BSB
ASV
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again?
KJV
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
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 Gen 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 Rom 9:20-
"Thou hast made me, as the clay, by an act of sovereignty; and wilt thou by a like act of sovereignty unmake me again? If so, I must submit." 3. "Wilt thou destroy the work of thy own hands?" It is a plea the saints have often used in prayer, We are the clay and thou our potter, Isa. lxiv.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Genesis 2:7Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
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before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being;” the last Adam a life-giving spirit.
But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
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Isaiah 64:8But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
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For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
Your hands have made me and fashioned me; give me understanding to learn Your commandments.
“Go down at once to the potter’s house, and there I will reveal My message to you.”
The LORD will fulfill His purpose for me. O LORD, Your loving devotion endures forever— do not abandon the works of Your hands.