Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay - There is evident allusion here to the creation of man, and to the fa…

Into dust. — Compare to Psalm 22:15.

Remember, I beseech you, that you have made me as the clay ,
&c.] Not of the clay, though man was made originally of…

Job seems to argue with God, as if he only formed and preserved him for misery. God made us, not we ourselves.

How sad that those bodies sho…

Job earlier proposed that both the innocent and the wicked are assailed by trials in this world. He touched upon one possible reason for the punish…