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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,...
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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...
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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...
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SPIRIT. breath. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9....
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These verses refer to the formation of the child in the womb, from
conception to full growth, cf. Psalms 139:13-16....
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_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...
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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...
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_THOU HAST GRANTED ME LIFE AND FAVOUR, AND THY VISITATION HATH
PRESERVED MY SPIRIT._
Visitation - thy watchful Providence.
SPIRIT - breath....
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VISITATION] RM 'care.'...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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חַיִּ֣ים וָ֭ חֶסֶד עָשִׂ֣יתָ
עִמָּדִ֑י וּ֝ פְ
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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_Thy fatherly visitation (Haydock) but still preserved my life.
(Calmet)_...
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(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...
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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...
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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;...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Job 10:12 granted H6213 (H8804) life H2416 favor H2617 care H6486
preserved H8104 (H8804) spirit H7307
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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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:
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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Acts 17:25; Acts 17:28; Genesis 19:19; Matthew 6:25...
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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...