Job 10:8

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Job 10:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

6 that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin—

7 though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?

8 Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?

9 Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?

10 Did You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 119:73

Your hands have made me and fashioned me; give me understanding to learn Your commandments.

Isaiah 43:7

everyone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made.”

Job 10:3

Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?

Genesis 6:6

And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

Genesis 6:7

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 creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”

Jeremiah 18:3

So I went down to the potter’s house and saw him working at the wheel.

Jeremiah 18:4

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.

Jeremiah 18:5

Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Jeremiah 18:6

“O house of Israel, declares the LORD, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.

Jeremiah 18:7

At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.

Jeremiah 18:8

But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.

Jeremiah 18:9

And if at another time I announce that I will build up and establish a nation or kingdom,

Jeremiah 18:10

and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it.