Job 34:14
If He sets His heart on him, || [If] He gathers His Spirit and His breath to Himself,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;
In Context
13Who has inspected for Himself the earth? And who has placed all the habitable world?
15All flesh expires together, || And man returns to dust.
Cross References
Job 7:17What [is] man that You magnify him? And that You set Your heart to him?
Psalms 90:3You turn man to a bruised thing, || And say, Return, you sons of men.
Isaiah 24:22And they have been gathered—A gathering of bound ones in a pit, || And they have been shut up in a prison, || And after a multitude of days are inspected.
Matthew Henry on Job 34:11-16
10 Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity. 11 For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways. 12 Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment. 13 Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world? 14 If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;… Read the whole commentary →