Job 10:9
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
KJV
Memento, quæso, quod sicut lutum feceris me, et in pulverem reduces me.
Vulgate
⸂⸆⸃ μνήσθητι ὅτι πηλόν με ἔπλασας, εἰς δὲ γῆν με πάλιν ἀποστρέφεις.
LXX
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again?
ASV
זְכָר נָ֭א כִּי כַ/חֹ֣מֶר עֲשִׂיתָ֑/נִי וְֽ/אֶל עָפָ֥ר תְּשִׁיבֵֽ/נִי
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֶל
'l
preposition · 5475×
זְכָר
zkr
verb · 231×
חֹ֖מֶר
chmr
noun · 31×
יַּ֥עַשׂ
y'sh
verb · 2621×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
נָ֣א
n'
particle · 403×
עָפָ֥ר
'pr
noun · 109×
שׁ֣וּב
shvb
verb · 1058×
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2270Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person - among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life.71 Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you.72 My frame was not hidden fr…
Cross-references
- Eccl 3:20 — All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
- Eccl 12:7 — Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
- Gen 2:7 — And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
- Gen 3:19 — In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
- Isa 45:9 — Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
- Isa 64:8 — But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
- Jer 18:6 — O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
- Job 4:19 — How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
- Job 33:6 — Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
- Ps 25:6 — Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.
- Ps 31:7 — I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
- Ps 78:39 — For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
- Ps 89:47 — Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
- Ps 103:14 — For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
- Ps 104:29 — Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
- Ps 139:13 — For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
- Rom 9:21 — Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?