Job 10:12
Thou hast granted me life and mercy, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Vitam et misericordiam tribuisti mihi, et visitatio tua custodivit spiritum meum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ζωὴν δὲ καὶ ἔλεος ἔθου παρ᾽ ἐμοί, ἡ δὲ ἐπισκοπή σου ἐφύλαξέν μου τὸ πνεῦμα.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- חַיִּ֣ים וָ֭חֶסֶד עָשִׂ֣יתָ עִמָּדִ֑י וּ֝פְקֻדָּתְךָ֗ שָֽׁמְרָ֥ה רוּחִֽי
Haydock's commentary
Thy fatherly visitation (Haydock) but still preserved my life. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
Theodoret Dialogues. The “Eranistes” or “Polymorphus” of the Blessed Theodoretus, Bishop of Cyrus, The Impassible
Orth. If you read what the just man said before, you will see the meaning of the one passage from the other, for he says “Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay and wilt thou bring me into dust again? Hast thou not poured me out as milk and curdled me like cheese? Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh and hast fenced me with bones and sinews, thou hast granted me life and favour.”