Job 10:9

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Remember that you moulded me like a piece of clay. So don't turn me back into dust once again.

Cross References

Genesis 2:7

The LORD God took a handful of soil and made a man. God breathed life into the man, and the man started breathing.

Genesis 3:19

You will have to sweat to earn a living; you were made out of soil, and you will once again turn into soil.”

Job 10:10

As cheese is made from milk, you created my body from a tiny drop.

Job 17:14

Then I could greet the grave as my father and say to the worms, “Hello, mother and sisters!”

Job 33:6

We were each made from clay, and God has no favourites,

Job 34:15

we humans would die and return to the soil.

Job 4:19

Humans are formed from clay and are fragile as moths, so what chance do you have?

Job 7:21

Why do you refuse to forgive? Soon you won't find me, because I'll be dead.

Job 7:7

I beg you, God, don't forget! My life is just a breath, and trouble lies ahead.

Psalm 103:14

because he knows we are made of dust.

Psalm 104:29

But when you turn away, they are terrified; when you end their life, they die and rot.

Psalm 106:4

Remember me, LORD, when you show kindness by saving your people.

Psalm 22:15

My strength has dried up like a broken clay pot, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You, God, have left me to die in the dust.

Psalm 25:18

See my troubles and misery and forgive my sins.

Psalm 78:39

God remembered that they were made of flesh and were like a wind that blows once and then dies down.

Psalm 89:47

Remember, life is short! Why did you empty our lives of all meaning?

Psalm 90:3

At your command we die and turn back to dust,

Ecclesiastes 12:7

So our bodies return to the earth, and the life-giving breath returns to God.

Isaiah 45:9

Israel, you have no right to argue with your Creator. You are merely a clay pot shaped by a potter. The clay doesn't ask, “Why did you make me this way? Where are the handles?”

Isaiah 64:7

No one worships in your name or remains faithful. You have turned your back on us and let our sins melt us away.

Isaiah 64:8

You, LORD, are our Father. We are nothing but clay, but you are the potter who moulded us.

Jeremiah 18:6

People of Israel, I, the LORD, have power over you, just as a potter has power over clay.

Romans 9:21

Doesn't a potter have the right to make a fancy bowl and a plain bowl out of the same lump of clay?”

2 Corinthians 4:7

We are like clay jars in which this treasure is stored. The real power comes from God and not from us.