Job 10:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit. ”

• Job 10:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Thy visitation hath preserved my spirit - Thy constant care; thy watchful providence; thy superintendence. The word rendered visitation ( פקדה p e qûddâh ) means properly the mustering of...

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• Job 10:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Thou hast granted me life and (m) favour, and thy (n) visitation hath preserved my spirit. (m) That is, reason and understanding, and many other gifts, by which man excels all earthly creatures. (n...

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• Job 10:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job's tone becomes sharper. He accuses God of having created him only to torment him. What profit is there to God in destroying the work that has cost Him so much pains? ( Job 10:3 )? Is God short-si...

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• Job 10:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  spirit . breath. Hebrew. ruach. App-9.

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• Job 10:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit. Thou hast granted me life and favorer - Thou hast brought me from my mother's womb; given me an actual existence amo...

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• Job 10:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit. Visitation - thy watchful Providence. Spirit - breath.

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• Job 10:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Job's Second Speech (concluded) 1-7. Job seeks the reason of his trial, and protests against God's treatment as inconsistent with the natural relations between Creator and created, and with God's...

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• Job 10:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  X. THE THOUGHT OF A DAYSMAN Job 9:1-35 ; Job 10:1-22 Job SPEAKS IT is with an infinitely sad restatement of what God has been made to appear to him by Bildad's speech that Job begins his reply...

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• Job 10:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Soul Bitterness Job 10:1-22 In this chapter Job accuses God of persecuting His own workmanship, Job 20:3 ; of pursuing him with repeated strokes, as if he had not time enough to wait between t...

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• Job 10:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Notwithstanding all this, Job appealed to God. Turning from his answer to Bildad, he poured out his agony as in the presence of the Most High. It was by no means a hopeful appeal, but it was an appea...

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• Job 10:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (8) В¶ Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. (9) Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust aga...

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• Job 10:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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 i...

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• Job 10:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit. Ver. 12. Thou hast granted me life ] i.e. Into my body, thus formed and organized, thou hast infused a soul; th...

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• Job 10:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Thou hast granted me life Thou didst not only give me a curious body, but also a reasonable soul: thou didst at first give me life, and then maintain it in me: both when I was in the womb, (which i...

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• Job 10:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  AN ATTEMPT TO REASON WITH GOD (vv.1-22) Since there was no mediator, Job in this chapter (from verse 2 on) directs all of his words directly to God, reasoning with Him as regards why God should...

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• Job 10:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        8 Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.   9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust...

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• Job 10:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Thou didst not only give me a curious body, but also a living and a reasonable soul: thou didst at first give me life, and then maintain it in me; both when I was in the womb, (which is a marvellous...

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• Job 10:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  JOB’S REPLY TO BILDAD—CONTINUED His speech takes the form rather of an expostulation with God in regard to his afflictions. The vehemence of his spirit reaches its height in this chapter. Does n...

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• Job 10:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 10:1 . I will leave my complaint upon myself. These words seem to imply, that he would bear his complaint in silence; but it immediately follows, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. O...

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• Job 10:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Is it good unto Thee that Thou shouldest oppress? Job’s mistaken views of his sufferings I. As inconsistent with all his ideas of his Maker. 1. As inconsistent with His goodness. “Is it good...

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• Job 10:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 10:1-18 Having answered Bildad, Job proceeds to pour out the bitterness of his soul in a pathetic complaint, which he addresses directly to God. There is not much that is nov...

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• Job 10:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job's Prayer for Enlightenment. Job now launches forth into a pitiful complaint, addressing God Himself on the great severity with which He was treating him, although He knew that he was innocent...

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• Job 10:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 17:25 ; Acts 17:28 ; Genesis 19:19 ; Matthew 6:25

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• Job 10:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Life — Thou didst not only give me a curious body, but also a reasonable soul: thou didst at first give me life, and then maintain it in me; both when I was in the womb (which is a marvellous work...

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