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Job 10:12
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You gave me life and faithful love,and your care has guarded my life.
You have granted me life and lovingkindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.
Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
You have granted me life and steadfast love, and your care has preserved my spirit.
You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your care you watched over my life.
You gave me life and favor, and your intervention watched over my spirit.
'You have granted me life and lovingkindness; And Your providence (divine care, supervision) has preserved my spirit.
'You have granted me life and goodness; And Your care has guarded my spirit.
You have granted me life and lovingkindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.
Thou hast giuen me life, & grace: & thy visitation hath preserued my spirit.
You have made alongside me life and lovingkindness;And Your care has kept my spirit.
You have granted me life and loving devotion, and Your care has preserved my spirit.
You, the source of my life, showered me with kindness and watched over me.
You granted me life and grace; your careful attention preserved my spirit.
Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy care hath preserved my spirit;
Thou hast granted me life and peace, and thy commandments have preserved my spirit.
You have given me life and constant love, and your care has kept me alive.
You have granted me life and loyal love, and your care has preserved my spirit.
You have made me have life and favor, and Your providence has kept my spirit.
Thou hast graunted me life, and done me good: and the diligent hede that thou tokest vpon me, hath preserued my sprete.
Thou hast granted me life and lovingkindness; And thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
You have been kind to me, and your grace has been with me, and your care has kept my spirit safe.
Thou hast granted me life and favour, and Thy providence hath preserved my spirit.
Thou hast granted me life and fauour, and thy visitation hath preserued my spirit.
Thou hast graunted me life, and done me good: and thy visitation hath preserued my spirite.
And thou didst bestow upon me life and mercy, and thy oversight has preserved my spirit.
Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
Thou hast youe lijf and mercy to me, and thi visiting hath kept my spirit.
You have granted me life and loving-kindness; And your visitation has preserved my spirit.
Thou hast granted me life and favor, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
You have granted me life and favor, And Your care has preserved my spirit.
You gave me life and showed me your unfailing love. My life was preserved by your care.
You have given me life and loving-kindness. Your care has kept my spirit alive.
You have granted me life and steadfast love, and your care has preserved my spirit.
Life and lovingkindness, thou didst bestow upon me, - and, thy watchful care, preserved my breath.
Thou hast granted me life and mercy, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
Thou hast granted me life and steadfast love; and thy care has preserved my spirit.
Life and kindness Thou hast done with me. And Thy inspection hath preserved my spirit.
'You have granted me life and lovingkindness; And Your care has preserved my spirit.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
life and favour: Genesis 19:19, Matthew 6:25, Acts 17:25, Acts 17:28
Reciprocal: Job 33:4 - General Psalms 30:7 - by thy
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thou hast granted me life and favour,.... Or "lives" q; natural life; both in the womb, where and when he was quickened, and at his birth, when he was brought into the world, and began to live in it; the rational soul may be intended, by which he lived; which, when created and infused into man, and united to his body, he becomes a living man; it is the presence of that which causes life, and the absence or removal of that which causes death; and this is a "grant" or gift from God, who gives to all his creatures life and breath, and all things; see Job 33:4; and is a "favour" also; a mercy, the chief of mercies; it is more than meat; yea, all a man has he will give for his life: besides this, Job had a spiritual life, a principle of it implanted in him; God had quickened him when dead in trespasses and sins; the spirit of life from Christ had entered into him, and he was become a living spiritual man: this likewise was a "grant" from God, a free grace gift of his; it is he that gives the living water, and gives it freely, or it would not be grace; for it is a "favour" which flows from the free grace and good will of God; it is owing to the great love wherewith he loves men that he quickens them; his time is a time of love, and so of life; and eternal life is the consequent of this, and is inseparably connected with it; and Job had an interest in it, a right unto it, and a meetness for it; he bad knowledge of it, faith in it, and hope of enjoying it, and knew that after death he should live this life; see Job 19:26; and this is a gift of God through Christ, owing to his good pleasure, the fruit of his favour and loving kindness: though by "favour" may be meant something distinct from life; either the care of him in the womb, and the taking of him out from thence, which are sometimes observed as singular mercies and favours; see Psalms 22:9; or the beauty and comeliness of his body, such as was on Moses, David, and others; see Proverbs 31:30; or rather it intends in general all the temporal blessings of life, food and raiment, every thing necessary for the comfort and support of life; and which are all mercies and favours, and what men are undeserving of; and especially spiritual blessings, or the blessings of grace; and the word here used is often used for grace and mercy, and may signify the several graces of the Spirit bestowed in regeneration, as faith, hope, love, c. which are all the gifts of God, and the effects of his favour and good will as also the blessings of, justifying, pardoning, and adopting grace; all which Job was favoured with, as well as with supplies of grace from time to time, and the fresh discoveries of the favour and loving kindness of God to him, which is better than life:
and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit; kept him alive, in a natural sense, while in the womb, as Jarchi, where he was in a wonderful manner nourished; and when he came out from thence, exposed to many difficulties and dangers, and during his helpless and infant state, and amidst a variety of troubles throughout the whole of his life hitherto; and which was owing to God's visitation of him in a way of mercy every morning; and which was no other than his providence or daily care of him, and concern for him; and so Mr. Broughton renders it "thy providence" r, and so some others: likewise he preserved his soul or spirit in a spiritual sense, in Christ Jesus, in whose bands he put him; he hid his life in him, and bound it up in the bundle of life with him; he kept him by his power as in a garrison, and preserved him safe to his kingdom and glory; and this is to be ascribed to his visitation of him in a way of grace, through the redemption of Christ, and the effectual calling of the blessed Spirit, and the constant supplies of grace vouchsafed from time to time: the Targum is, "thy remembrance": for it is owing to God's remembrance of his people that he visits them, either in providence or grace; and when he visits them with his providence, or with his gracious presence and protection, it is plain he remembers them: now since God had favoured him with such blessings of nature, providence, and grace, he reasons with him about his present circumstances; that, after all this, surely he would not destroy him and cut him off; at least he knew not how well to reconcile past favours with such hard and severe usage as he thought he met with from him.
q חיים "vitas", Montanus, Bolducius. r פקדתך "providentia tua", Tigurine version, Munster, Michaelis.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Thy visitation hath preserved my spirit - Thy constant care; thy watchful providence; thy superintendence. The word rendered visitation (פקדה peqûddâh) means properly the mustering of an army, the care that is manifested in looking after those who are enlisted; and then denotes care, vigilance, providence, custody, watch. The idea is, that God had watched over him and preserved him, and that to his constant vigilance he owed the preservation of his life.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 10:12. Thou hast granted me life and favour — Thou hast brought me from my mother's womb; given me an actual existence among men; by thy favour or mercy thou hast provided me with the means of life; and thy visitation - thy continual providential care, has preserved me in life - has given me the air I breathe, and furnished me with those powers which enable me to respire it as an agent and preserver of life. It is by God's continued visitation or influence that the life of any man is preserved; in him we live, move, and have our being.
