Job 33:6
I am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay.
BSB
ASV
Behold, I am toward God even as thou art: I also am formed out of the clay.
KJV
Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
Behold, God made me as well as thee, and I am also formed of the same clay; yet let not my wonder terrify thee, and my eloquence be burdensome to thee. What then is meant by Eliu acknowledging the order of his true creation, and not knowing the limits of proper speech? What by his putting himself on a level with Job when created, and setting himself above him when about to speak?
"I," says Elihu, "am formed out of the clay as well as thou," formed of the same clay, so some read it. It is good for us all to consider that we are formed out of the clay; and well for us it is that those who are to us in God's stead are so, that he speaks to us by men like ourselves, according to Israel's wish upon a full trial, Deut. v. 24 .
I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay - Mr. Good, and before him none other that I have seen, has most probably hit the true meaning: - “Behold, I am thy fellow. I too was formed by God out of the clay.” The word כפיך kephicha, which we translate according to thy wish, and which, if Hebrew, would mean like to thy mouth; he considers as pure Arabic, with a Hebrew postfix, (Arabic) kefoo, signifying fellow, equal, like.
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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.
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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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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.
Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.
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2 Corinthians 5:1Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
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But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.
Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as…
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Job 10:9Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
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Then 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.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.