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Job’s Plea to God

Job 10:8

In 11 translations

BSB
Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?
KJV
Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.have…: Heb. took pains about me
WEB
“‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.
ASV
Thy hands have framed me and fashioned me Together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
LSV
Your hands have taken pains about me, || And they make me together all around, || And You swallow me up!
YLT
Thy hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together round about, And Thou swallowest me up!
DBY
Thy hands have bound me together and made me as one, round about; yet dost thou swallow me up!
DRC
Thy hands have made me, and fashioned me wholly round about, and dost thou thus cast me down headlong on a sudden?
GNV
Thine handes haue made me, and fashioned mee wholy rounde about, and wilt thou destroy me?
JPS
Thy hands have framed me and fashioned me together round about; yet Thou dost destroy me!
LXXE
Thy hands have formed me and made me; afterwards thou didst change thy mind, and smite me.

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Original-language editions

WLC
יָדֶ֣יךָ עִ֭צְּבוּנִי וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֑וּנִי יַ֥חַד סָ֝בִ֗יב וַֽתְּבַלְּעֵֽנִי׃
LXX-Br
Αἱ χεῖρές σου ἔπλασάν με καὶ ἐποίησάν με, μετὰ ταῦτα μεταβαλών με ἔπαισας.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 119:73Your hands have made me and fashioned me; give me understanding to learn Your commandments.
  • Job 10:3Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?
  • Isaiah 43:7everyone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made.”
  • Jeremiah 18:3–10So I went down to the potter’s house and saw him working at the wheel. But the vessel that he was shaping from the clay became flawed in his hand; so he formed it into another vessel, as it seemed best for him to do.…
  • Genesis 6:6–7And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling…

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