Albert Barnes Commentary Job 10:11

Albert Barnes Commentary

Job 10:11

1798–1870
Presbyterian
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes Commentary

Job 10:11

1798–1870
Presbyterian
SCRIPTURE

"Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews." — Job 10:11 (ASV)

You have clothed me with skin and flesh - This refers, undoubtedly, to the formation of man in his fetal existence, and is designed to denote that the whole organization of the human frame was to be traced to God. Grotius remarks that this is the order in which the infant is formed - that the skin appears first, then the flesh, then the harder parts of the frame. On this subject, the reader may consult Dunglison’s Physiology, volume 2, page 340 and following.

And have fenced me - Margin, Hedged. Literally, Have covered me. The sense is plain. God had formed him as he was, and to him he owed his life, and all that he had. Job asks with the deepest interest whether God would take down a frame formed in this manner, and reduce it again to dust? Would it not be more for his honor to preserve it still - at least to the common limit of human life?