Job 10:8-10

New Catholic Bible

I Realize What Was Your Intent^[a]

⁸“ ‘Your hands created and fashioned me;
    will you now turn away and destroy me?
⁹Remember that you fashioned me like clay;
    will you now reduce me again to dust?
¹⁰Did you not pour me out like milk
    and curdle me like cheese?

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Footnotes

Job 10:8 The question is posed: what relation exists between God’s love and his justice on earth in regard to human beings?

Job 10:8-10

New International Version

⁸“Your hands shaped^(A) me and made me.
    Will you now turn and destroy me?^(B)
⁹Remember that you molded me like clay.^(C)
    Will you now turn me to dust again?^(D)
¹⁰Did you not pour me out like milk
    and curdle me like cheese,

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Job 10:8-10

New King James Version

⁸‘Your^(A) hands have made me and fashioned me,
An intricate unity;
Yet You would ^(B)destroy me.
⁹Remember, I pray, ^(C)that You have made me like clay.
And will You turn me into dust again?
¹⁰^(D)Did You not pour me out like milk,
And curdle me like cheese,