Job 10:9

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

זְכָר־נָ֭א כִּי־כַחֹ֣מֶר עֲשִׂיתָ֑נִי וְֽאֶל־עָפָ֥ר תְּשִׁיבֵֽנִי׃

Transliteration

zəkār-nāʾ that like kaḥōmer ʿăśîtānî and to ʿāpār təšîbēnî

Grammar Details

*zəkār*: Qal imperative, masculine singular - remember
*nāʾ*: particle of entreaty - please
*kaḥōmer*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - like clay
*ʿăśîtānî*: Qal perfect, 2nd masculine singular with 1st person suffix - you made me
*ʿāpār*: noun, masculine singular - dust
*təšîbēnî*: Hiphil imperfect, 2nd masculine singular with 1st person suffix - you will return me

Word Meanings

*kaḥōmer*: like clay/like dirt/like mud
*ʿăśîtānî*: you made me/you formed me/you created me
*ʿāpār*: dust/dirt/earth
*təšîbēnî*: you will return me/you will cause me to return/you will bring me back

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Gen 2:7 : 7 And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Gen 3:19 : 19 in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Isa 64:8 : 8 But now, O Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
Jer 18:6 : 6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith Jehovah. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are ye in my hand, O house of Israel.
Eccl 12:7 : 7 and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.
Isa 45:9 : 9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
Rom 9:21 : 21 Or hath not the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?
Job 7:7 : 7 Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye shall no more see good.
Job 17:14 : 14 If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister;
Ps 22:15 : 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
Ps 25:6-7 : 6 Remember, O Jehovah, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindness; For they have been ever of old. 7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: According to thy lovingkindness remember thou me, For thy goodness' sake, O Jehovah.
Ps 25:18 : 18 Consider mine affliction and my travail; And forgive all my sins.
Ps 89:47 : 47 Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!
Ps 90:3 : 3 Thou turnest man to destruction, And sayest, Return, ye children of men.
Ps 106:4 : 4 Remember me, O Jehovah, with the favor that thou bearest unto thy people; Oh visit me with thy salvation,

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