He preserves our lives and keeps our feet from slipping.
Cross References
Psalm 18:36You broaden the path beneath me so that my ankles do not give way.
Psalm 30:3O LORD, You pulled me up from Sheol; You spared me from descending into the Pit.
Psalm 37:23The steps of a man are ordered by the LORD who takes delight in his journey.
Psalm 121:3He will not allow your foot to slip; your Protector will not slumber.
Proverbs 2:8to guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His saints.
Treasury of Scripture
Which holds our soul in life, and suffers not our feet to be moved.
holdeth [heb.
Psalm 22:29
All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
1 Samuel 25:29
Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
Acts 17:28
For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
suffereth
Psalm 37:23,24
The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way…
Psalm 62:2,6
He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved…
Psalm 94:18
When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.