Job 34:14
If He doth set on him His heart, His spirit and his breath unto Him He gathereth.
Young's Literal Translation
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 hath inspected for Himself the earth? And who hath placed all the habitable world?
15Expire doth all flesh together, And man to dust returneth.
Cross References
Job 7:17What [is] man that Thou dost magnify him? And that Thou settest unto him Thy heart?
Psalms 90:3Thou turnest man unto a bruised thing, And sayest, Turn back, ye sons of men.
Isaiah 24:22And they have been gathered — A gathering of bound ones in a pit, And shut up they have been 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 →