“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.
Church Fathers on Job 10:8
My soul is weary of my life. Now whensoever the present life has once begun to grow tasteless, and the love of the Creator to become sweet, the soul inflames itself against self, that it may accuse self for the sins, wherein it formerly vindicated itself, being ignorant of the things above. Whence he yet further adds with propriety, I will let my speech go against myself. He as it were employs his speech in behalf of himself, who tries to defend by excuses the evil things…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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