8Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
JOD. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. …
And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-13)In these verses we may observe, I. How Job eyes God as his Creator and preserver, and describes his dependence upon him as the author and upholder of his being. This is one of the first things we are all concerned to know and consider. 1. That God made us, he, and not our parents, who were only the instruments of his power and providence in our production. He made us, and not we ourselves. His han…
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