George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Job 10:12
Thy fatherly visitation (Haydock) but still preserved my life. (Calmet)
Thy fatherly visitation (Haydock) but still preserved my life. (Calmet)
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 mean...
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 an army,...
CHAPTER S 9-10 JOB ANSWERS BILDAD _ 1. The supremacy and power of God (Job 9:1)_ 2. How then can Job meet Him? (Job 9:11) 3. He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked (Job 9:22) 4. Confession of we...
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-sight...
SPIRIT. breath. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9....
These verses refer to the formation of the child in the womb, from conception to full growth, cf. Psalms 139:13-16....
_granted me life and favour_ i. e. granted me life and shewn me loving kindness. The verse speaks of God's dealing with Job from the time he was born and became a living man. _thy visitation_ i. e. t...
5. HE WOULD ASK THE ALMIGHTY THE REASON FOR THE CHANGE IN HIS TREATMENT OF HIS CREATURE. (JOB 10:1-22) TEXT 10:1-22 10 My soul is weary of my life; I will give free coarse to my complaint; I will s...
_THOU HAST GRANTED ME LIFE AND FAVOUR, AND THY VISITATION HATH PRESERVED MY SPIRIT._ Visitation - thy watchful Providence. SPIRIT - breath....
VISITATION] RM 'care.'...
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 kno...
Job could see that God designed the human body. And Job could see that this was not a simple task. God acted carefully when he made Job’s body. God did not cause Job to live by accident. Rather, God s...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 10 JOB PRAYS TO GOD JOB PR...
חַיִּ֣ים וָ֭ חֶסֶד עָשִׂ֣יתָ עִמָּדִ֑י וּ֝ פְ
X. THE THOUGHT OF A DAYSMAN JOB 9:1; Job 10:1 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. Yes, yes; it...
SOUL BITTERNESS Job 10:1 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 them, but mu...
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 appeal...
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)...
(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 agai...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
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;...
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; that...
_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 is...
Thou hast granted me life and favor, his life having been preserved by reason of the divine kindness, AND THY VISITATION HATH PRESERVED MY SPIRIT; by the providence of God his life had been spared and...
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 of...
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 deal...
Job is also grateful and acknowledges that God had taken very good care of him in the past, so why has God now turned on him? "It shows that, although Job wrestles with God, he is conscious of his abs...
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 capab...
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 w...
Job 10:12 granted H6213 (H8804) life H2416 favor H2617 care H6486 preserved H8104 (H8804) spirit H7307
CONTENTS: Job's answer to Bildad continued. CHARACTERS: God, Job, Bildad. CONCLUSION: Sometimes, when in affliction, the believer is tempted to think that God's providences and His justice cannot be...
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._ Oste...
_Thy visitation hath preserved my spirit._ ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF AND APPEAL TO GOD Job addresses God as his Creator, Preserver, and Benefactor; he seems to ask, why, knowing his frailty, He laid upon him...
_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 unto...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 10:8 Job shares the wonder of the psalmist (Psalms 139:14) and the insight given to the prophet (Jeremiah 1:
_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 not...
EXPOSITION JOB 10:1 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 novel in the lon...
Now Job goes on in the tenth chapter. He said, My soul is weary of my life (Job 10:1); He goes right back into his misery. He looks for the answer, but it isn't there; it isn't to be found. And so I...
Acts 17:25; Acts 17:28; Genesis 19:19; Matthew 6:25...
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 of...