Job 12:10
8 Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you.
9 Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?
The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.
11 Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its food?
12 Wisdom is found with the elderly, and understanding comes with long life.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.
- KJV
- In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
- WEB
- in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
- ASV
- In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?
- DARBY
- In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all flesh of man.
- BLB
- in whose hand [is] the soul of every living [thing], and the breath of all the flesh of man?
- ÅB
- han som har i sin hånd hver levende sjel og hvert menneskelegemes ånd?
- OTB
- I Hans hånd er livet til hver skapning
og ånden til hele menneskeheten. - B1930
- han som har i sin hånd hver levende sjel og hvert menneskelegemes ånd?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Acts 17:28
‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’
Read in contextJob 33:4
The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Read in contextActs 17:25
Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.
Read in contextNumbers 16:22
But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will You be angry with the whole congregation?”
Read in contextJob 27:3
as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,
Read in contextDaniel 5:23
Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you have failed to glorify the God who holds in His hand your very breath and all your ways.
Read in contextPsalms 146:3–4
Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.
Read in contextJob 34:14–15
If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,
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