Job 10:8

_THINE HANDS HAVE MADE ME AND FASHIONED ME TOGETHER ROUND ABOUT; YET THOU DOST DESTROY ME._ Thine hands have made me, and fashioned me. "Made" with pains and elaborate art, implying a work of difficulty and art [`itseeb], applying to God language applicable only to man (cf. Job 10:9). TOGETHER ROUND ABOUT - implying that the human body is a complete unity, the parts of which on all sides will bear the closest scrutiny....

8-13 Job seems to argue with God, as if he only formed and preserved him for misery. God made us, not we ourselves. How sad that those bodies should be instruments of unrighteousness, which are capable of being temples of the Holy Ghost! But the soul is the life, the soul is the man, and this is the gift of God. If we plead with ourselves as an inducement to duty, God made me and maintains me, we may plead as an argument for mercy, Thou hast made me, do thou new-make me; I am thine, save me....

Verse Job 10:8. _THINE HANDS HAVE MADE ME_] Thou art well acquainted with human nature, for thou art its author. _AND FASHIONED ME TOGETHER ROUND ABOUT_] All my powers and faculties have been planned and executed by thyself. It is thou who hast refined the materials out of which I have been formed, and modified them into that excellent symmetry and order in which they are now found; so that the _union_ and _harmony_ of the different parts, (יחד _yachad_,) and their arrangement and _completion_, (סביב sabib,) proclaim equally thy wisdom, skill, power, and goodness. _YET THOU DOST DESTROY ME._] ותבלעני _vatteballeeni_, "and thou wilt swallow me up." Men generally care for and prize those works on which they have spent most time, skill, and pains: but, although thou hast formed me with such incredible skill and labo

THINE HANDS HAVE MADE ME - Job proceeds now to state that he had been made by God, and that he had shown great skill and pains in his formation. He argues that it would seem like caprice to take such pains, and to exercise such amazing wisdom and care in forming him, and then, on a sudden, and without cause, dash his own work to pieces. Who makes a beautiful vase only to be destroyed? Who moulds a statue from marble only to break it to pieces? Who builds a splendid edifice only to pull it down? Who plants a rare and precious flower only to have the pleasure of plucking it up? The statement in Job 10:8, is not only beautiful and forcible as an argument, but is especially interesting and valuable, as it may be presumed to embody the views in the patriarchal age about the formation and the laws of the human frame. No inconsiderable part of the value of the book of Job, a

EXPOSITION JOB 10:1 Having answered Bildad, Job proceeds to pour out the bitterness of his soul in a pathetic complaint, which he addresses directly to God. There is not much that is novel in the long expostulation, which mainly goes over ground covered in Job 3:1; Job 6:1; Job 7:1; but some new grounds are alleged as pleas for mercy, if not for justice. These are (1) that he is God's gesture, and in the past (at any rate) has been the object of his care (Job 7:3, J

THINE HANDS HAVE MADE ME, AND FASHIONED TOGETHER ROUND ABOUT,.... This and what follow are an illustration of and an enlargement upon, the work of God's hands, made mention of in Job 10:3; and suggest reasons why it should not be despised by him, as well as confirm what was just now said, that none could deliver him out of his hands; since his hands had made him, and therefore had such power over him as none else had: and the whole seems designed to move to pity and compassion of him; for not he himself, nor his parents, but God only had made him; he was his workmanship only, and a curious piece it was, which his hands of power and wisdom had nicely formed; for, though the Son and Spirit of God are not to be excluded from the formation of man, yet it seems a too great strain of the words to interpret "hands" of them, as some do; and much less are they to be understood literally of the ha...

CHAPTER S 9-10 JOB ANSWERS BILDAD _ 1. The supremacy and power of God (Job 9:1)_ 2. How then can Job meet Him? (Job 9:11) 3. He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked (Job 9:22) 4. Confession of weakness and the need of a daysman (Job 9:25) 5. Murmuring against God (Job 10:1) 6. Welcoming death (Job 10:18) Job 9:1. The final words of Bildad seemed to have had a momentary soothing

Job's tone becomes sharper. He accuses God of having created him only to torment him. What profit is there to God in destroying the work that has cost Him so much pains? (Job 10:3)? Is God short-sighted, so that He sees faults where they do not exist (Job 10:4)? How can He be, when He is eternal (Job 10:5)? Yet He inquires after Job's sin, torturing to make him confess (Job 10:6 f.). Job reminds God how He has made him (Job 10:10 f. describes according to the poet's physiology the formation of the embryo; _cf._ Ps

According to the Hebrew punctuation this verse reads, Thine hands have fashioned me and made me, Together round about; and thou dost destroy me! Mention of God's hand, Job 10:7, suggests how of old God's hand fashioned him with lavish expenditure of skill on all his parts, and he brings the contradiction of God's present dealing with him before God exclaiming, Thou dost destroy me!...

YET THOU DOST DESTROY ME— _And wilt thou tear me to pieces?_ Heath....