Job 10:9

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Remember, You fashioned me from clay; will You now return me to dust?

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  • Gen 2:7 : 7 Then the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground, breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread until you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you will return.
  • Isa 64:8 : 8 Do not be exceedingly angry, LORD, and do not remember our sins forever. Behold us, we are all your people.
  • Jer 18:6 : 6 “Can I not do with you, O house of Israel, as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Behold, like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 And the dust returns to the earth as it once was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
  • Isa 45:9 : 9 Woe to those who strive with their Maker, like a piece of pottery among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’?
  • Rom 9:21 : 21 Does not the potter have the right over the clay to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?
  • Job 7:7 : 7 Remember that my life is but a breath; my eyes will never see good again.
  • Job 17:14 : 14 and I call the pit my father, and the worm my mother and sister,
  • Ps 22:15 : 15 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts within me.
  • Ps 25:6-7 : 6 Remember your mercy, O LORD, and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old. 7 Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love, remember me, for the sake of your goodness, O LORD.
  • Ps 25:18 : 18 Look on my affliction and my pain, and forgive all my sins.
  • Ps 89:47 : 47 How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath keep burning like fire?
  • Ps 90:3 : 3 You turn humankind back to dust, saying, 'Return, O children of man.'
  • Ps 106:4 : 4 Remember me, LORD, when You show favor to Your people; come to my aid with Your salvation.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 10:5-8
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    5Are Your days like the days of a human? Are Your years like those of a strong man?

    6Do You search for my iniquity and investigate my sin?

    7You know that I am not wicked, and that no one can deliver me from Your hand.

    8Your hands shaped me and made me, yet now You destroy me completely.

  • Job 10:10-11
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    10Did You not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?

    11You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

  • Job 33:5-6
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    79%

    5If you can, answer me; prepare yourself before me and take your stand.

    6Look, I am like you before God; I too was formed from clay.

  • 19He has cast me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.

  • 12Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

  • Rom 9:20-21
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    75%

    20But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its maker, 'Why have you made me like this?'

    21Does not the potter have the right over the clay to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?

  • 47How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath keep burning like fire?

  • 9Woe to those who strive with their Maker, like a piece of pottery among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’?

  • 16You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, 'You did not make me'? Can the pot say to the potter, 'You know nothing'?

  • 10I am mute; I will not open my mouth because You have done this.

  • 15My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

  • Job 10:18-20
    3 verses
    71%

    18Why then did You bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died and no eye had seen me.

    19If only I had never existed, carried straight from the womb to the grave.

    20Are not my days few? Leave me alone, so I may have a moment of relief.

  • 8Do not be exceedingly angry, LORD, and do not remember our sins forever. Behold us, we are all your people.

  • 13If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If you would set me a time and then remember me!

  • 15Did not the same One who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same God form us both within our mothers?

  • 3Do you fix your gaze on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?

  • 4Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.

  • Job 7:20-21
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    70%

    20If I have sinned, what have I done to you, you who see everything we do? Why have you made me your target? Have I become a burden to you?

    21Why do you not pardon my offenses and forgive my sins? For I will soon lie down in the dust; you will search for me, but I will be no more.

  • 22You lift me up and make me ride on the wind; You dissolve me in the storm.

  • 15I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts within me.

  • 3You turn humankind back to dust, saying, 'Return, O children of man.'

  • Jer 18:4-6
    3 verses
    69%

    4But the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, so he remade it into another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make.

    5Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

    6“Can I not do with you, O house of Israel, as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Behold, like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.

  • 14For He knows how we are formed; He remembers that we are dust.

  • 73Your hands made me and formed me; give me understanding to learn Your commandments.

  • 12I am a disgrace among all my enemies, and even more to my neighbors—a dread to my acquaintances; those who see me on the street flee from me.

  • 9To You, O LORD, I call; to the Lord I plead for mercy:

  • 4My heart grew hot within me; as I meditated, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:

  • 8Would you indeed annul My justice? Would you condemn Me that you may be justified?

  • 8You have bound me up as a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.

  • 2I will say to God: Do not condemn me; tell me why You contend with me.

  • 10For I eat ashes as my food and mix my drink with tears.

  • 5I remember the days of old; I meditate on all you have done; I consider the work of your hands.

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    4When I look at Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon, and the stars that You have set in place—

  • 38when the dust becomes hard as metal and the clods of earth stick together?

  • 17What is mankind that you make so much of them, that you give them so much attention,

  • 17My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.

  • 4He has worn away my flesh and my skin; He has broken my bones.

  • 9'Commit yourself to the LORD; let Him deliver him! Let Him rescue him, since He delights in him.'

  • 3You have insulted me ten times now; you are not even ashamed that you mistreat me.