Job 10:9
Good News Translation
Remember that you made me from clay; are you going to crush me back to dust?

New Revised Standard Version
Remember that you fashioned me like clay; and will you turn me to dust again?

Contemporary English Version
Remember that you molded me like a piece of clay. So don't turn me back into dust once again.

New American Bible
Oh, remember that you fashioned me from clay! Will you then bring me down to dust again?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and thou wilt bring me into dust

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Remember

Job 7:7 Remember that my life is but wind, and my eye shall not return to see good things.

Psalm 25:6,7,18 Remember, O Lord, thy bowels of compassion; and thy mercies that are from the beginning of the world. . . .

Psalm 89:47 Remember what my substance is: for hast thou made all the children of men in vain?

Psalm 106:4 Remember us, O Lord, in the favour of thy people: visit us with thy salvation.

thou hast

Genesis 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.

Isaiah 45:9 Woe to him that gainsayeth his maker, a sherd of the earthen pots: shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it: What art thou making, and thy work is without hands?

Isaiah 64:8 And now, O Lord, thou art our father, and we are clay: and thou art our maker, and we all are the works of thy hands.

Jeremiah 18:6 Cannot I do with you, as this potter, O house of Israel, saith the Lord? behold as clay is in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.

into dust again

Job 17:14 I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister.

Psalm 22:15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue hath cleaved to my jaws: and thou hast brought me down into the dust of death.

Psalm 90:3 Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 And the dust return into its earth, from whence it was, and the spirit return to God, who gave it.

Romans 9:21 Or hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump, to make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour?

Context
Job's Plea to God
8Thy hands have made me, and fashioned me wholly round about, and dost thou thus cast me down headlong on a sudden? 9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and thou wilt bring me into dust10Hast thou not milked me as milk, and curdled me like cheese?…
Cross References
2 Corinthians 4:7
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency may be of the power of God and not of us.

Job 4:19
How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?

Job 7:21
Why dost thou not remove my sin, and why dost thou not take away my iniquity? Behold now I shall sleep in the dust: and if thou seek me in the morning, I shall not be.

Job 10:10
Hast thou not milked me as milk, and curdled me like cheese?

Job 33:6
Behold God hath made me as well as thee, and of the same clay I also was formed.

Job 34:15
All flesh shall perish together, and man shall return into ashes.

Psalm 78:39
And he remembered that they are flesh: a wind that goeth and returneth not.

Psalm 89:47
Remember what my substance is: for hast thou made all the children of men in vain?

Psalm 104:29
But if thou turnest away thy face, they shall be troubled: thou shalt take away their breath, and they shall fail, and shall return to their dust.

Job 10:8
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