Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou have fashioned me as clay. And will thou bring me into dust again?

New American Standard Bible

‘Remember now, that You have made me as clay;
And would You turn me into dust again?

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Please remember that You formed me like clay.
Will You now return me to dust?

International Standard Version

""Please remember that you've made me like clay and you'll return me to dust.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


‘Remember now, that You have made me as clay;
So will You turn me into dust again?

Bible in Basic English

O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

Remember now, thou didst make me as day; and thou wilt turn me back to dust.

King James 2000

Remember, I beseech you, that you have made me as the clay; and will you bring me into dust again?

Lexham Expanded Bible

Please remember that you made me like clay, but you turn me into dust [again]?

Modern King James verseion

Remember, I beseech You, that You have formed me as the clay; and will You bring me into the dust again?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

O remember, I beseech thee, how that thou madest me of the mould of the earth, and shalt bring me into dust again.

NET Bible

Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?

New Heart English Bible

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

The Emphasized Bible

Remember, I pray thee, that, as clay, thou didst make me, and, unto dust, thou wilt cause me to return.

Webster

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

World English Bible

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

Youngs Literal Translation

Remember, I pray Thee, That as clay Thou hast made me, And unto dust Thou dost bring me back.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
me as the clay
חמר 
Chomer 
Usage: 31

and wilt thou bring
שׁוּב 
Shuwb 
Usage: 1058

me into dust
עפר 
`aphar 
Usage: 110

References

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

Job Continues His Response To Bildad

8 Thy hands have made me and fashioned me together round about, yet thou destroy me. 9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou have fashioned me as clay. And will thou bring me into dust again? 10 Have thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?

Cross References

Genesis 2:7

And LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

Genesis 3:19

In the sweat of thy face thou shall eat bread, till thou return to the ground, for out of it thou were taken. For thou are dust, and to dust thou shall return.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Isaiah 64:8

But now, O LORD, thou are our Father. We are the clay, and thou our potter, and we are all the work of thy hand.

Job 7:7

O remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.

Job 17:14

if I have said to corruption, Thou are my father, to the worm, My mother, and my sister,

Psalm 22:15

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue clings to my jaws, and thou have brought me into the dust of death.

Psalm 25:6-7

Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy loving kindness. For they have been ever of old.

Psalm 25:18

Consider my affliction and my travail, and forgive all my sins.

Psalm 89:47

O remember how short my time is, for what vanity thou have created all the sons of men!

Psalm 90:3

Thou turn man to destruction, and say, Return, ye sons of men.

Psalm 106:4

Remember me, O LORD, with the favor that thou bear to thy people. O visit me with thy salvation,

Isaiah 45:9

Woe to him who strives with his maker, a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What are thou making? or thy work, He has no hands?

Jeremiah 18:6

O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? says LORD. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are ye in my hand, O house of Israel.

Romans 9:21

Or has the potter no right over the clay, from the same lump certainly to make this vessel for esteem, and that for disesteem?

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