Job 10:9

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 2:7 : 7 The LORD God formed the man from the soil of the ground and 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 food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”
  • Isa 64:8 : 8 Yet, LORD, you are our father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the product of your labor.
  • Jer 18:6 : 6 “I, the LORD, say:‘O nation of Israel, can I not deal with you as this potter deals with the clay? In my hands, you, O nation of Israel, are just like the clay in this potter’s hand.’
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life’s breath returns to God who gave it.
  • Isa 45:9 : 9 The Lord Gives a Warning One who argues with his Creator is in grave danger, one who is like a mere shard among the other shards on the ground! The clay should not say to the potter,“What in the world are you doing? Your work lacks skill!”
  • Rom 9:21 : 21 Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use?
  • Job 7:7 : 7 Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.
  • Job 17:14 : 14 If I cry to corruption,‘You are my father,’ and to the worm,‘My mother,’ or‘My sister,’
  • Ps 22:15 : 15 The roof of my mouth is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums. You set me in the dust of death.
  • Ps 25:6-7 : 6 Remember your compassionate and faithful deeds, O LORD, for you have always acted in this manner. 7 Do not hold against me the sins of my youth or my rebellious acts! Because you are faithful to me, extend to me your favor, O LORD!
  • Ps 25:18 : 18 See my pain and suffering! Forgive all my sins!
  • Ps 89:47 : 47 Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?
  • Ps 90:3 : 3 You make mankind return to the dust, and say,“Return, O people!”
  • Ps 106:4 : 4 Remember me, O LORD, when you show favor to your people! Pay attention to me, when you deliver,

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

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  • Job 33:5-6
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    5Reply to me, if you can; set your arguments in order before me and take your stand!

    6Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.

  • Job 30:19
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    19He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.

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    12Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

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    20But who indeed are you– a mere human being– to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder,“Why have you made me like this?”

    21Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use?

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    47Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?

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    9The Lord Gives a Warning One who argues with his Creator is in grave danger, one who is like a mere shard among the other shards on the ground! The clay should not say to the potter,“What in the world are you doing? Your work lacks skill!”

  • Isa 29:16
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    16Your thinking is perverse! Should the potter be regarded as clay? Should the thing made say about its maker,“He didn’t make me”? Or should the pottery say about the potter,“He doesn’t understand”?

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    10Please stop wounding me! You have almost beaten me to death!

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    15my bones were not hidden from you, when I was made in secret and sewed together in the depths of the earth.

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    18An Appeal for Relief“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!

    19I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!

    20Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

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    8Yet, LORD, you are our father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the product of your labor.

  • Job 14:13
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    13The Possibility of Another Life“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!

  • Job 31:15
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    15Did not the one who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us in the womb?

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    3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

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  • Job 7:20-21
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    20If I have sinned– what have I done to you, O watcher of men? Why have you set me as your target? Have I become a burden to you?

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    22You pick me up on the wind and make me ride on it; you toss me about in the storm.

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    15The roof of my mouth is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums. You set me in the dust of death.

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    3You make mankind return to the dust, and say,“Return, O people!”

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    4Now and then there would be something wrong with the pot he was molding from the clay with his hands. So he would rework the clay into another kind of pot as he saw fit.

    5Then the LORD’s message came to me,

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    14For he knows what we are made of; he realizes we are made of clay.

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    73י(Yod) Your hands made me and formed me. Give me understanding so that I might learn your commands.

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    12I am forgotten, like a dead man no one thinks about; I am regarded as worthless, like a broken jar.

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    9“What profit is there in taking my life, in my descending into the Pit? Can the dust of the grave praise you? Can it declare your loyalty?

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    4“O LORD, help me understand my mortality and the brevity of life! Let me realize how quickly my life will pass!

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    2I will say to God,‘Do not condemn me; tell me why you are contending with me.’

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    10because of your anger and raging fury. Indeed, you pick me up and throw me away.

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    38when the dust hardens into a mass, and the clumps of earth stick together?

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