Job 10:12-"Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit. 13-And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee." (Job is appealing to God's pity, and this is the form of his argument: "You are my Creator-be my Preserver. You have made me--do not break me. You are dealing harshly with me. I am almost destroyed beneath the pressure of your hands. Remember that I am your own creature. Weak and frail as I am, I am the creation of your hands. Therefore, do not despise your own work. Whatever I am, with the exception of my sin, you have made me. You have brought me into my present condition. Consider, then, what a poor, frail thing I am and stay your hand and do not utterly crush my spirit."

This is a wise prayer, a right and proper argument for a creature to use with the Creator. And when Job goes still further and addresses God not only as his Creator but as his Benefactor and mentions the great blessings he had received from God; his argument still holds good. Even if we have forgotten all that God has done for us, God has not forgotten. Many children forget all the kindness and love of their mother, but the mother remembers all she did for her children in the days of their helplessness, and she loves them all the more because of what she did for them).

Charles H. Spurgeon