“Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.”
Job asserts that God granted him steadfast love and visited him with care, suggesting that Job has experienced divine blessing and protection. The memory of divine kindness makes the present assault more inexplicable and more painful. The contrast between past blessing and present suffering intensifies the sense of betrayal.
Church Fathers on Job 10:12
Hast Thou not poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese? Thou hast clothed me with skin, and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews. For man when fashioned was moulded like clay, but being propagated he is ‘poured out like milk’ in the seed, and is ‘curdled like cheese’ in the flesh, and he is ‘clothed with skin and flesh,’ and is rendered firm by bones and sinews. Therefore by clay we have set forth to us the character of the first creating, but by milk…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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