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Job’s Plea to God

Job 10:12

In 11 translations

BSB
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.
KJV
Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
WEB
You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.
ASV
Thou hast granted me life and lovingkindness; And thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
LSV
Life and kindness You have done with me. And Your inspection has preserved my spirit.
YLT
Life and kindness Thou hast done with me. And Thy inspection hath preserved my spirit.
DBY
Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy care hath preserved my spirit;
DRC
Thou hast granted me life and mercy, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
GNV
Thou hast giuen me life, and grace: and thy visitation hath preserued my spirit.
JPS
Thou hast granted me life and favour, and Thy providence hath preserved my spirit.
LXXE
And thou didst bestow upon me life and mercy, and thy oversight has preserved my spirit.

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Original-language editions

WLC
חַיִּ֣ים וָ֭חֶסֶד עָשִׂ֣יתָ עִמָּדִ֑י וּ֝פְקֻדָּתְךָ֗ שָֽׁמְרָ֥ה רוּחִֽי׃
LXX-Br
Ζωὴν δὲ καὶ ἔλεος ἔθου παρʼ ἐμοὶ, ἡ δὲ ἐπισκοπή σου ἐφυλαξέ μου τὸ πνεῦμα.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 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.’
  • Job 33:4The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
  • Acts 17:25Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.
  • Genesis 19:19Your 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 6:25Therefore 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?

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