Job 10:11

"Haven’t you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?"

Key Reflection

In Job 10:11, the prophet uses vivid imagery to describe God's creation of him. By comparing himself to milk that has been poured and curdled into cheese, Job suggests a process of transformation and formation. This metaphor implies that from an unformed state, he was carefully crafted by God, much like how milk is transformed through the action of rennet into cheese. Such imagery underscores the intricate and deliberate nature of God’s creative work in Job's life, highlighting both the dependency on divine craftsmanship and the resulting complexity of his being.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh -This refers, undoubtedly, to the formation of man in his foetal existence, and is designed to denote that the whole organization of the human frame was to be traced to God. Grotius remarks that this is the order in which the infant is formed - that the skin appears first, then the flesh, then the harder parts of the frame. On this subject, the reader may consult Dunglison’s Physiology, vol. ii. p. 340ff. And hast fenced me -Margin, Hedged. Literally, Hast covered me. The sense is plain. God had formed him as he was, and to him he owed his life, and all that he had.

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