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Job 10:12

Job 10:12 is verse 12 of Job chapter 10, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

You have granted me life and loving devotion, and Your care has preserved my spirit.

Forms of the Hebrew chesed are translated here and in most cases throughout the Scriptures as loving devotion; the range of meaning includes love, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, and mercy, as well as loyalty to a covenant.

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King James Version

Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.

World English Bible

You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.

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Job 10:10–14 · Berean Standard Bible

10 Did You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?

11 You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

12 You have granted me life and loving devotion, and Your care has preserved my spirit.

13 Yet You concealed these things in Your heart, and I know that this was in Your mind:

14 If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Genesis 19:19

Your servant has indeed found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I cannot run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.

Matthew 6:25

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?

Acts 17:25

Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.

Acts 17:28

‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’

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