Job 10:12 - Exposition

Thou hast granted me life and favour . God, besides providing Job with a body so delicately and marvellously constructed, had added the gift of "life" ( Genesis 2:7 ), and also that of "favour," or loving providential care, whereby his life was preserved from infancy to manhood, and from manhood to a ripe age, in peace and prosperity. Job has not forgotten his former state of temporal happiness ( Job 1:2-5 ), nor ceased to feel gratitude to God for it (comp. Job 2:10 ). And thy visitation hath preserved my spirit ; or, thy providence— "thy continual care."