(8) В¶ Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. (9) Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again? (10) Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese? (11) Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews. (12) Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit. (13) And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.
What a beautiful description Job gives of GOD'S work in his formation? He eyes GOD as making him, feeding him, sustaining, protecting, fencing him, and granting continued instances of life and favor. Now saith Job, (and he pleads these things, as so many arguments for mercy), did my GOD thus bestow such tokens of wisdom and love, and will he not hear the cries of his afflicted creature? There is a great sweetness, and strength of persuasion, in this argument. But Reader! how this pleading riseth to an higher note; when paraphrased in the melodious accents of the gospel? How may every poor believer in JESUS, bring forth those arguments and say; Thou hast made me, O LORD, and new made me in CHRIST JESUS, thy dear, ever blessed Son; not only given me a being, but a new being, and an union of being in and with JESUS; thou hast fed me with his body, and caused me to drink of his blood; clothed me with his righteousness, put on the garment of salvation, fenced me from all the accusations of sin and Satan, of law and justice; visited me day by day with thy grace; granted me life and favor; and JESUS himself hath preserved my spirit; and shall I now despond; shall I now be afraid? Surely if the LORD were pleased to kill me, would he have received JESUS as my Redeemer at my hands, or accepted me in JESUS; or have showed me all these things? Judges 13:23.