Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 10:9

9. Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay , and wilt thou bring me into dust again ?

i. e. Of the Clay, the Note of similitude here expressing the truth of things, as it doth, Iohn 1. 14. and elsewhere, as hath been before observed: Or, as a Potter maketh a Vessel of the Clay; and so this may note both the frailty of man's Nature, which of it self decaies and perisheth, and doth not need such violent shocks and storms to overthrow it; and the Excellency of the Divine Artifice commended from the meanness of the Materials out of which it was made; which is an Argument why God should not destroy it.

Wiltst thou now causlesl[illegible: 1+ letters] and violently destroy thy own Work? But the words are and may be read without an Interrogation; And thou wilt bring me into du[illegible: 1+ letters]l again. out of which I was made: I must die by the course of Nature, and by the sentence of thy Law; and therefore whilest I do live give me some ease and comfort.

Marginal references: Gen. 2[illegible: 1+ letters]. & 3. 19.; Or, [illegible: 1 word].