Job 10:9

New English Translation

Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?

Cross References

Genesis 2:7

The Lord God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”

Job 10:10

Did you not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?

Job 17:14

If I cry to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My Mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

Job 33:6

Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.

Job 34:15

all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.

Job 4:19

how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?

Job 7:21

And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”

Job 7:7

Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.

Psalm 103:14

For he knows what we are made of; he realizes we are made of clay.

Psalm 104:29

When you ignore them, they panic. When you take away their life’s breath, they die and return to dust.

Psalm 106:4

Remember me, O Lord, when you show favor to your people! Pay attention to me, when you deliver,

Psalm 22:15

The roof of my mouth is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums. You set me in the dust of death.

Psalm 25:18

See my pain and suffering! Forgive all my sins!

Psalm 78:39

He remembered that they were made of flesh, and were like a wind that blows past and does not return.

Psalm 89:47

Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?

Psalm 90:3

You make mankind return to the dust, and say, “Return, O people!”

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life’s breath returns to God who gave it.

Isaiah 45:9

One who argues with his creator is in grave danger, one who is like a mere shard among the other shards on the ground! The clay should not say to the potter, “What in the world are you doing? Your work lacks skill!”

Isaiah 64:7

No one invokes your name, or makes an effort to take hold of you. For you have rejected us and handed us over to our own sins.

Isaiah 64:8

Yet, Lord, you are our father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the product of your labor.

Jeremiah 18:6

“I, the Lord, say: ‘O nation of Israel, can I not deal with you as this potter deals with the clay? In my hands, you, O nation of Israel, are just like the clay in this potter’s hand.’

Romans 9:21

Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use?

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that the extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us.