Job 12:10
in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
In Context
9Who doesn’t know that in all these, the LORD’s hand has done this,
11Doesn’t the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?
Cross References
Genesis 6:17I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is on the earth will die.
Job 27:3(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
Job 34:14If he set his heart on himself, if he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,
Psalms 104:30You send out your Spirit and they are created. You renew the face of the ground.
Isaiah 57:16For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.
John 3:6That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Matthew Henry on Job 12:7-12
6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly. 7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: 8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. 9 Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? 10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind. 11 Doth not the ear try words? and… Read the whole commentary →