[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….”
[78:39] 3 tn The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive signals a return to the narrative.
[78:39] 4 tn Heb “and he remembered that they [were] flesh, a wind [that] goes and does not return.”