8 "Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me?
8 Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
8 Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed me altogether.
8 "You made me like a handcrafted piece of pottery - and now are you going to smash me to pieces?
8 'Your hands have made me and fashioned me, An intricate unity; Yet You would destroy me.
8 "'You formed me with your hands; you made me, yet now you completely destroy me.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 10:8
Commentary on Job 10:8-13
(Read Job 10:8-13)
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.