Job 10 · Verse 12

Job 10:12

Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
Job 10:12, King James Version

Job 10:12 in other translations

BSBYou have granted me life and loving devotion, and Your care has preserved my spirit.
WEBYou have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.
ASVThou hast granted me life and lovingkindness; And thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
YLTLife and kindness Thou hast done with me. And Thy inspection hath preserved my spirit.
DARBYThou hast granted me life and favour, and thy care hath preserved my spirit;
BBEYou have been kind to me, and your grace has been with me, and your care has kept my spirit safe.
WebsterThou hast granted me life and favor, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.

What does Job 10:12 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
12. visitation--Thy watchful Providence. spirit--breath.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 12 Thou hast granted me life and favorer - Thou hast brought me from my mother's womb; given me an actual existence among men; by thy favor 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 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…

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Job 10:12 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

חַיִּ֣יםchai.YimlifeH2416
וָ֭חֶסֶדVa.che.sedand loyaltyH2617
עָשִׂ֣יתָ'a.Si.tayou have doneH6213
עִמָּדִ֑י'i.ma.Diwith meH5978
וּ֝פְקֻדָּתְךָ֗u.fe.ku.da.te.chaand care yourH6486
שָֽׁמְרָ֥הsha.me.Rahit has keptH8104
רוּחִֽי\׃ru.Chispirit myH7307

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 10:12

  • Acts 17:28

    For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

  • Job 33:4

    The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.

  • Acts 17:25

    Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

  • Matthew 6:25

    Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

  • Genesis 19:19

    Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
life and favour.
Ge 19:19; Mt 6:25; Ac 17:25,28

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 10:11

    Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.

  • Job 10:12

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

  • Job 10:13

    And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.

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Job 10:12 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Vida y misericordia me concediste, y tu visitación guardó mi espíritu.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Tu m’as donné la vie, et tu as usé de bonté envers moi, et tes soins ont gardé mon esprit;
German
Elberfelder 1871		Leben und Huld hast du mir gewährt, und deine Obhut bewahrte meinen Geist.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Vitam et misericordiam tribuisti mihi, et visitatio tua custodivit spiritum meum.