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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 10:8-13

In these verses we may observe, I. How Job eyes God as his Creator and preserver, and describes his dependence upon him as the author and upholder of his being. This is one of the first things we are all concerned to know and consider. 1. That God made us, he, and not our parents, who were only the instruments of his power and providence in our production. He made us, and not we ourselves. His hands have made and fashioned these bodies of ours and every part of them (Job 10:8), and they are... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 10:8

Thine hands have made me, and fashioned together round about ,.... This and what follow are an illustration of and an enlargement upon, the work of God's hands, made mention of in Job 10:3 ; and suggest reasons why it should not be despised by him, as well as confirm what was just now said, that none could deliver him out of his hands; since his hands had made him, and therefore had such power over him as none else had: and the whole seems designed to move to pity and compassion of him;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 10:9

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay ,.... Not of the clay, though man was made originally of the dust of the earth, and the bodies of men are houses of clay, earthen vessels, and earthly tabernacles, but "as the clay"; either as the clay is wrought in the hand of the potter, and worked into what form, and made into what vessel he pleases, so are men in the hand of God, made by him in what form, and for what use and end he thinks fit; or rather this denotes not the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 10:10

Hast thou not poured me out as milk ,.... Expressing, in modest terms, his conception from the seed of his parents, comparable to milk, from being a liquid, and for its colour: and curdled me like cheese ? that of the female being mixed with, and heated by the male, is hardened like the curd of which a cheese is made, and begins to receive a form as that, and becomes an embryo: and naturalists F11 "Sic semen maris dicitur" πιτυα , Aristot. de Gen. Animal. l. 1. c. 20. "coagulum".... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 10:11

Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh ,.... The bones with flesh, which is the under garment, and the flesh with skin, which is the upper; which is artificially composed of intricate little arteries, veins, nerves, and glands, through which the blood continually circulates, and through innumerable pores, and transpires, of which pores 125,000 may be covered with a small grain of sand F12 Scheuchzer. Physic. Sacr. vol. 4. p. 681. , amazing! Timaeus Locrus F13 De Anima Mundi, p.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 10:12

Thou hast granted me life and favour ,.... Or "lives" F17 חיים "vitas", Montanus, Bolducius. ; natural life; both in the womb, where and when he was quickened, and at his birth, when he was brought into the world, and began to live in it; the rational soul may be intended, by which he lived; which, when created and infused into man, and united to his body, he becomes a living man; it is the presence of that which causes life, and the absence or removal of that which causes death; and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 10:13

And these things thou hast hid in thine heart ,.... Meaning, either the mercies and favours he had indulged him with; these he seemed to conceal and suppress the memory of, as if they had never been, by a different conduct and behaviour; or rather, these he had laid up in his mind and memory, and had full knowledge and remembrance of; though he dealt with him in the manner he did, he could not forget his former favours to him, which, when compared with his present dealings, were very... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 10:8

Thine hands have made me - Thou art well acquainted with human nature, for thou art its author. And fashioned me together round about - All my powers and faculties have been planned and executed by thyself. It is thou who hast refined the materials out of which I have been formed, and modified them into that excellent symmetry and order in which they are now found; so that the union and harmony of the different parts, ( יחד yachad ), and their arrangement and completion, ( סביב ... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 10:9

Thou hast made me as the clay - Thou hast fashioned me, according to thy own mind, out of a mass of clay: after so much skill and pains expended, men might naturally suppose they were to have a permanent being; but thou hast decreed to turn them into dust! read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 10:10

Hast thou not poured me out as milk - After all that some learned men have said on this subject, in order to confine the images here to simple nutrition, I am satisfied that generation is the true notion. Respicit ad fetus in matris utero primam formationem, quum in embryonem ex utriusque parentis semine coalescit - Ex semine liquido, lac quodammodo referente, me formasti - In interpretando, inquit Hieronymus, omnino his accedo qui de genitali semine accipiunt, quod ipsa tanquam natura... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 10:8-13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 10:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 10:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 10:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 10:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 10:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 10:13

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 10:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 10:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 10:10

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