Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Ver. 9. Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay] Remembrance and foreknowledge are not properly in God. See Trapp on " Job 10:4 " But he is said to remember us when he relieveth us, Psalms 136:23; Psa 9:18 1 Samuel 1:19. "That thou hast made me," &c., viz. in those protoplasts, my first parents, formed out of the ground, Genesis 2:7, whence the heathen philosopher could say, that man is nothing else but a piece of clay weakly made up: or thou hast wrought me like clay, sc. in the womb, where thou hast framed and formed my body, as the potter worketh his clay, well tempered, into an earthen vessel, πηλος κομφως πεφυραμενος (Arrian. in Epict.). Here, then, Job inminds the Lord (by the matter whereof he was made) of the frailty, vility, and impurity of his nature (Lutum enim conspureat omnia, sic et. caro), to move him to a mitigating of his misery. See Psalms 103:14; Psalms 78:39 .
Wilt thou bring me into the dust again?] viz. By those grievous torments; or, And that thou wilt bring me into dust again; for so thou hast said, To dust shalt thou return, Genesis 3:19. And it is appointed for all men once to die, Hebrews 9:27. Oh, therefore, that I might have some small rest and respite before I go hence, and be no more seen, Psalms 39:12,13 .