Job 10:8

“Your hands shaped me and made me altogether all around, and you swallow me up.”

Job 10:8 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Job 10:8, word by word

Your handsיָדֶיyade

hand

The part of the body with which one takes, gives and works; also what one does.

Where else “yade” appears
shaped meעִצְּבוּitsvu

shape

To shape with the hands, as a potter does with clay.

Where else “itsvu” appears
and made meיַּעֲשׂוּyaasu

make

To build or create something.

Where else “yaasu” appears
altogetherיַחַדyachad

together

Together, at the same time.

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all aroundסָבִיבsaviv

around

In a circle or on every side of something: the camp, the city, the altar.

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and you swallow me upתְּבַלְּעֵtevale

swallow

Swallow, swallow up; hence, destroy.

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The context

7although you know that I am not wicked, and there is none to deliver from your hand?

8 · This verse (above)

9Remember, please, that like clay you made me, and to dust you will return me.

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