Job 10:9
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?”
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“Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?”
King James Version · Public Domain“Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Remember, I pray Thee, That as clay Thou hast made me, And unto dust Thou dost bring me back.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 10:9 — 21 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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.
- Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
- Job 4:19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
- Job 7:7Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.
- Job 7:21Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
- Job 17:14and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
- Job 33:6I am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay.
- Job 34:15all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.
- Psalms 22:15My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.
- Psalms 25:6Remember, O LORD, Your compassion and loving devotion, for they are from age to age.
- Psalms 25:18Consider my affliction and trouble, and take away all my sins.
- Psalms 89:47Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!
- Psalms 90:3You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”
- Psalms 103:14For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust.
- Psalms 106:4Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation,
- Ecclesiastes 12:7before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
- Isaiah 45:9Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker— one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?
- Isaiah 64:7No one calls on Your name or strives to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.
- 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.
- Jeremiah 18:6“O house of Israel, declares the LORD, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.
- Romans 9:21Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?
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