“Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.”
Job notes that God clothed him with skin and flesh and knitted him together with bones and sinews, extending the imagery of God's intimate creative work. The building up of the body from components emphasizes God's attentive formation of the human being. The God who performed this creation now allows it to disintegrate.
Church Fathers on Job 10:11
Hast Thou not poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese? Thou hast clothed me with skin, and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews. For man when fashioned was moulded like clay, but being propagated he is ‘poured out like milk’ in the seed, and is ‘curdled like cheese’ in the flesh, and he is ‘clothed with skin and flesh,’ and is rendered firm by bones and sinews. Therefore by clay we have set forth to us the character of the first creating, but by milk…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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