Job 10:9

New International Reader's Version

Remember, you molded me like clay. So are you going to turn me back into dust?

Cross References

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God formed a man. He made him out of the dust of the ground. God breathed the breath of life into him. And the man became a living person.

Genesis 3:19

You will have to work hard and sweat a lot to produce the food you eat. You were made out of the ground. You will return to it when you die. You are dust, and you will return to dust.”

Job 10:10

Didn’t you pour me out like milk? Didn’t you form me like cheese?

Job 17:14

Suppose I say to the grave, ‘You are like a father to me.’ And suppose I say to its worms, ‘You are like a mother or sister to me.’

Job 33:6

To God I’m just the same as you. I too am a piece of clay.

Job 34:15

Then everyone would die together. They would return to the dust.

Job 4:19

So he’ll certainly find fault with human beings. After all, they are made out of dust. They can be crushed more easily than a moth.

Job 7:21

Why don’t you forgive the wrong things I’ve done? Why don’t you forgive me for my sins? I’ll soon lie down in the dust of my grave. You will search for me. But I’ll be gone.”

Job 7:7

God, remember that my life is only a breath. I’ll never be happy again.

Psalm 103:14

He knows what we are made of. He remembers that we are dust.

Psalm 104:29

When you turn your face away from them, they are terrified. When you take away their breath, they die and turn back into dust.

Psalm 106:4

Lord, remember me when you bless your people. Help me when you save them.

Psalm 22:15

My mouth is dried up like a piece of broken pottery. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You bring me down to the edge of the grave.

Psalm 25:18

Look at how I’m hurting! See how much I suffer! Take away all my sins.

Psalm 78:39

He remembered that they were only human. He remembered they were only a breath of air that drifts by and doesn’t return.

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my life is. You have created all people for such a useless purpose!

Psalm 90:3

You turn human beings back to dust. You say to them, “Return to dust.”

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Remember your Creator before you return to the dust you came from. Remember him before your spirit goes back to God who gave it.

Isaiah 45:9

How terrible it will be for anyone who argues with their Maker! They are like a broken piece of pottery lying on the ground. Does clay say to a potter, “What are you making?” Does a pot say, “The potter doesn’t have any skill”?

Isaiah 64:7

No one prays to you. No one asks you for help. You have turned your face away from us. You have let us feel the effects of our sins.

Isaiah 64:8

Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay. You are the potter. Your hands made all of us.

Jeremiah 18:6

“People of Israel, I can do with you just as this potter does,” announces the Lord. “The clay is in the potter’s hand. And you are in my hand, people of Israel.

Romans 9:21

Isn’t the potter free to make different kinds of pots out of the same lump of clay? Some are for special purposes. Others are for ordinary use.

2 Corinthians 4:7

Treasure is kept in clay jars. In the same way, we have the treasure of the good news in these earthly bodies of ours. That shows that the mighty power of the good news comes from God. It doesn’t come from us.