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Job 10:10–11

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10:10Did you not pour25 me out like milk,

and curdle26 me like cheese?27

10:11You clothed28 me with skin and flesh

and knit me together29 with bones and sinews.

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Footnotes

  1. 25 The verb נָתַךְ (natakh) means “to flow,” and in the Hiphil, “to cause to flow.”
  2. 26 This verb קָפָא (qafa’) means “to coagulate.” In the Hiphil it means “to stiffen; to congeal.”
  3. 27 The verbs in v. 10 are prefixed conjugations; since the reference is to the womb, these would need to be classified as preterites. These verses figuratively describe the formation of the embryo in the womb.
  4. 28 The skin and flesh form the exterior of the body and so the image of “clothing” is appropriate. Once again the verb is the prefixed conjugation, expressing what God did.
  5. 29 This verb is found only here (related nouns are common) and in the parallel passage of Ps 139:13. The word סָכַךְ (sakhakh), here a Poel prefixed conjugation (preterite), means “to knit together.” The implied comparison is that the bones and sinews form the tapestry of the person (compare other images of weaving the life).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Did you not pour me out like milk

and curdle me like cheese?

You clothed me with skin and flesh,

and knit me together with bones and sinews.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Did you not pour me out like milk

and curdle me like cheese,

clothe me with skin and flesh

and knit me together with bones and sinews?

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Did you not pour me out like milk

and curdle me like cheese?

You clothed me with skin and flesh,

and wove me together with bones and tendons.

NLTNew Living Translation

You guided my conception

and formed me in the womb.

You clothed me with skin and flesh,

and you knit my bones and sinews together.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Did you not pour me out like milk

and curdle me like cheese?

You clothed me with skin and flesh,

and you knit me together with bones and sinews.

KJV 1900King James Version

Hast thou not poured me out as milk,

And curdled me like cheese?

Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh,

And hast fenced me with bones and sinews.