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Job 10:12

The Pulpit Commentary on Job 10:12

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Thou hast granted me life and favour. God, besides providing Job with a body so delicately and marvellously constructed, had added the gift of "life" (), and also that of "favour," or loving providential care, whereby his life was preserved from infancy to manhood, and from manhood to a ripe age, in peace and prosperity.

Job has not forgotten his former state of temporal happiness (), nor ceased to feel gratitude to God for it (comp. ). And thy visitation hath preserved my spirit; or, thy providence—"thy continual care."

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