Job 10:9

10:9 Remember that you have made me as with ¹  the clay;

will ²  you return me to dust?

Job 36:24

36:24 Remember to extol ³  his work,

which people have praised in song.

Job 41:8

41:8 If you lay your hand on it,

you will remember ⁴  the fight,

and you will never do it again!

[10:9]  ¹ tn The preposition “like” creates a small tension here. So some ignore the preposition and read “clay” as an adverbial accusative of the material (GKC 371 §117.hh but cf. 379 §119.i with reference to beth essentiae: “as it were, by clay”). The NIV gets around the problem with a different meaning for the verb: “you molded me like clay.” Some suggest the meaning was “as [with] clay” (in the same manner that we have “as [in] the day of Midian” [Isa 9:4]).

[10:9]  ² tn The text has a conjunction: “and to dust….”

[36:24]  ³ tn The expression is “that you extol,” serving as an object of the verb.

[41:8]  ⁵ tn The verse uses two imperatives which can be interpreted in sequence: do this, and then this will happen.