You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
- BSB You have granted me life and loving devotion, and Your care has preserved my spirit.
- NKJV You have granted me life and favor, And Your care has preserved my spirit.
- NASB ‘You have granted me life and goodness; And Your care has guarded my spirit.
- NLT You gave me life and showed me your unfailing love. My life was preserved by your care.
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Quick answer
Job confesses that God granted him life and steadfast love and preserved his spirit. Even in complaint he recalls God's past kindness.
Overview
Amid his lament Job acknowledges God's gifts of life, covenant loving-kindness, and watchful care. This memory of grace keeps his complaint anchored to a God he knows to be good. Such recalling of past mercy is a pattern for faith in dark times, fully secured in Christ, in whom God's loving-kindness is shown forever (Lamentations 3:21-23; Ephesians 2:4-7).
Cross-references & the web
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- Acts 17:28‘For in him we live, and move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’
- Job 33:4The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
- Acts 17:25neither is he served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.
- Gen 19:19See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.
- Matt 6:25Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
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