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Job 10:9 — King James Version← Study notes

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?


Job 10:9Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 10:98 words
HebrewMeaning
זְכָרzəkār
rememberverbH2142
burn · earnestly · mention · be mindful ···
נָ֭אnāʾ
pleaseparticleH4994
go to · now · oh
כִּיkiy
thatconjH3588
+ (forasmuch · inasmuch · where-) as · assured ···
כַ/חֹ֣מֶרkaḥōmer
like claypronH2563
heap · homer · mire · motion
עֲשִׂיתָ֑/נִיʿăśiytāniy
you made meverbH6213
advance · appoint · apt · be at ···
וְֽ/אֶלwəʾel
and toconjH413
according to · after · against · among ···
עָפָ֥רʿāpār
dustnounH6083
dust · earth · ground · morter ···
תְּשִׁיבֵֽ/נִיtəšiybēniy
will you turn back? meverbH7725
build · circumcise · dig · do anything ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Job 10:9

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…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 9 §64
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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