Job 10:8-22

10:8 Your hands fashioned me and made me altogether,- Job 31:15; Ps. 119:73 The word hands is the same word used in vs. 7. The God whose hands formed Job is the same God from whose hands there is no deliverance. The verb fashioned is used of the making of an idol in Hos. 8:4. Jer. 44:19. God’s hands fashioned us and in rebellion man’s hands fashion gods (idols).

And would You destroy me?- The word destroy is used of Jonah being swallowed by the great fish in Jonah 1:17. More importantly to this study is that this is the word the LORD used in 2:3. Little does Job know that God Himself has used this same word of Job’s destruction and the LORD has stated that his suffering is without cause. The LORD is pained by the pain that Job has endured.

Job has trouble recognizing that the One who made him with such intimate care was now going to swallow Him alive. “Would the potter take his most delicate and intricate creation and smash it into fragments like a defective pot?"

Job assumes that the Creator of mankind should be good and that His purposes for man are to bless him, but that is not what he is experiencing presently.

10:9 Remember now,- 7:7. When God remembers He acts on behalf of the one remembered (Gen. 8:1: Ex.2:23-25). Remember is in Ps. 20:3; 25:6; 79:8; Lam. 5:1 a call to God to show mercy.

that You have made me as clay,- Isaiah 64:8-9 the fact that LORD is the potter and His people are the clay is a call for God to have mercy upon them. The fact that man is made of clay shows his weakness and his dependence on God. Man’s weakness is often a basis for God showing mercy unto us (Ps. 103:14), but the LORD seems to have no mercy on Job.

Isa. 45:9-10; Jer. 18:5-10; Rom. 9:20-21 use this same image of God as Potter and man as the clay. These three texts just mentioned stress God’s sovereign rights and man’s inability to call God to account.