| Geneva Study Bible Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews. Wesley's Notes 10:11 Clothed - Covered my inward and more noble parts; which are first formed. So he proceeds in describing man's formation gradually. Bones - The stay and strength of the body; and some of them, as the skull and ribs, enclose and defend its vital parts. King James Translators' Notes fenced: Heb. hedged Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 11. fenced-or "inlaid" (Ps 139:15); "curiously wrought" [Umbreit]. In the fotus the skin appears first, then the flesh, then the harder parts. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 10:8-13 Job seems to argue with God, as if he only formed and preserved him for misery. God made us, not we ourselves. How sad that those bodies should be instruments of unrighteousness, which are capable of being temples of the Holy Ghost! But the soul is the life, the soul is the man, and this is the gift of God. If we plead with ourselves as an inducement to duty, God made me and maintains me, we may plead as an argument for mercy, Thou hast made me, do thou new-make me; I am thine, save me. | 
