Job 10:9
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and thou wilt bring me into dust again.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Memento, quæso, quod sicut lutum feceris me, et in pulverem reduces me.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ⸂⸆⸃ μνήσθητι ὅτι πηλόν με ἔπλασας, εἰς δὲ γῆν με πάλιν ἀποστρέφεις.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- זְכָר נָ֭א כִּי כַחֹ֣מֶר עֲשִׂיתָ֑נִי וְֽאֶל עָפָ֥ר תְּשִׁיבֵֽנִי
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom Two Homilies on Eutropius, Homily II. After Eutropius having been found outside the Church had been taken captive
But as I was saying, He who was thus great and powerful desired an harlot. I speak of our human nature under that name. If a man indeed desire an harlot he is condemned, and doth God desire one? Yea verily. Again a man desireth an harlot that he may become a fornicator: but God that He may convert the harlot into a virgin: so that the desire of the man is the destruction of her who is desired: but the desire of God is salvation to her who is desired. And why did He who is so great and powerful desire an harlot? that He might become the husband thereof. How doth He act? He doth not send to her any of His servants, He sendeth not angel, archangel, Cherubim, or Seraphim; but He himself draws nigh Who loves her. Again when thou hearest of love, deem it not sensuous. …
Theodoret Dialogues. The “Eranistes” or “Polymorphus” of the Blessed Theodoretus, Bishop of Cyrus, The Impassible
Orth. If you read what the just man said before, you will see the meaning of the one passage from the other, for he says “Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay and wilt thou bring me into dust again? Hast thou not poured me out as milk and curdled me like cheese? Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh and hast fenced me with bones and sinews, thou hast granted me life and favour.”