12Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
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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.
The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
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?
Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
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:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-13)In these verses we may observe, I. How Job eyes God as his Creator and preserver, and describes his dependence upon him as the author and upholder of his being. This is one of the first things we are all concerned to know and consider. 1. That God made us, he, and not our parents, who were only the instruments of his power and providence in our production. He made us, and not we ourselves. His han…
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