Job 12:10

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?”

— WEB

“In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.”

— KJV

“In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?”

— ASV

Acts 17:28 "‘For in him we live, and move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’"
Job 33:4 "The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life."
Acts 17:25 "neither is he served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things."
Numbers 16:22 "They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the cong…"
Job 27:3 "(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);"
Daniel 5:23 "but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords…"
Psalms 146:3-4 "Don’t put your trust in princes, each a son of man in whom there is no help."
Psalms 104:29 "You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust."

the soul--that is, the animal life. Man, reasons Job, is subjected to the same laws as the lower animals.

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