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`Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether; Yet you destroy me.
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The Creator's Contradiction
Job's argument hinges on a powerful contradiction. Commentators explain that Job is questioning why God would act like an artist who meticulously carves a beautiful statue only to smash it to pieces. Job sees God's careful, skillful creation of his body as being at odds with his current, seemingly senseless suffering and destruction.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Thine hands have made me - Job now proceeds to state that he had been made by God, and that God had shown great skill and pains in …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Your hands have made me, and fashioned together round about , &c.] This and what follow are an illustration of and a…
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…
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13th Century
Catholic
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…
