“Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.”
Job reflects that God's hands have made and shaped him, and now God turns around and destroys him, articulating the paradox of the creator turning against the created. The image of being shaped by the creator becomes a prelude to destruction by the same creator. The intimacy of creation is inverted into the horror of destruction.
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