Job 10:8
Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
Cross-references
In Job 10:3, Job asks if God despises 'the work of thine hands', directly referring to the same creation he describes in verse 8 – an internal thematic link.
In Job 14:15, Job hopes God will desire the work of His hands – a hopeful contrast to verse 8's accusation that God destroys His own creation.
Job 31:15 echoes the same conviction that God's hands made each person, reinforcing Job's argument that the Creator should not destroy His own work.
In Psalm 119:73, the same opening phrase 'Thy hands have made me and fashioned me' is used as a basis for prayer, contrasting Job's complaint of destruction.
In Jeremiah 18:3-10, the potter has power to reshape or destroy the clay – a clear parallel to Job's lament that God, as his maker, is destroying him.
Psalm 138:8 calls God's people 'the work of your hands,' the same phrase Job uses to plead for God's care instead of destruction.
Isaiah 64:8 uses the potter-clay metaphor to express trust in God's fatherly care — opposite to Job's complaint that the potter is crushing him.
In Deuteronomy 32:6, Moses reminds Israel that God made them, while Job uses the same creation argument to question why God would destroy His handiwork.
Psalm 100:3 affirms God as our maker — a positive contrast to Job's lament that the same God now destroys.