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Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
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The Potter's Masterpiece
Job appeals to God as a master craftsman. Commentators explain that by referencing his creation from clay (Genesis 2:7), Job questions why God would form such a noble structure only to crush it back into dust. It's a plea based on the value God Himself placed on His own handiwork.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
19th Century
Anglican
Into dust. — Compare to Psalm 22:15.
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Remember, I beseech you, that you have made me as the clay , &c.] Not of the clay, though man was made originally of…
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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…
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…
