New English Translation
Job 12:10
10in whose hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all the human race.
Job 12:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
- New International Version (NIV)In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.
- English Standard Version (ESV)In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.
- New King James Version (NKJV)In whose hand is the life of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?
Context of Job 12:10
8Or speak to the earth and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea declare to you. 9Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this, in whose hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all the human race. 11Does not the ear test words, as the tongue tastes food? 12Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?
Read all of Job 12Job 12:10 word by word
אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּ֭יָדוֹ נֶ֣פֶשׁ כָּל־חָ֑י וְ֝ר֗וּחַ כָּל־בְּשַׂר־אִֽישׁ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 12:10
- Numbers 16:22Then they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all people, will you be angry with the whole community when only one man sins?”
- Daniel 5:23Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. You brought before you the vessels from his temple, and you and your nobles, together with your wives and concubines, drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone – gods that cannot see or hear or comprehend! But you have not glorified the God who has in his control your very breath and all your ways!
- Acts 17:25nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone.
- Job 27:3for while my spirit is still in me, and the breath from God is in my nostrils,
- Job 34:14If God were to set his heart on it, and gather in his spirit and his breath,
- Genesis 2:7The Lord God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
- Genesis 6:17I am about to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. Everything that is on the earth will die,
- Psalms 104:29When you ignore them, they panic. When you take away their life’s breath, they die and return to dust.
- Psalms 146:3Do not trust in princes, or in human beings, who cannot deliver!
- John 3:6What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Commentaries on Job 12:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10In whose hand is the soul of every living thing - חי כל נפש nephesh col chai, "the soul of all life." And the breath of all mankind - בשר כל ורוח veruach col besar, "and the spirit or breath of all flesh." Does not the first refer to the immortal soul, the principle of all intellectual life; and the latter to the breath, respiration, the grand means by which animal existence is continued? See Job 10:1.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10In whose hand is the soul of every living thing - Margin, “Life.” The margin is the more correct rendering. The idea is, that all are under the control of God. He gives life, and health, and happiness when he pleases, and when he chooses he takes them away. His sovereignty is manifested, says Job, in the inferior creation, or among the beasts of the field, the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of heaven. And the breath of all mankind - Margin, “Flesh of…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-11Verses 6-11 Job appeals to facts. The most audacious robbers, oppressors, and impious wretches, often prosper. Yet this is not by fortune or chance; the Lord orders these things. Worldly prosperity is of small value in his sight: he has better things for his children. Job resolves all into the absolute proprietorship which God has in all the creatures. He demands from his friends liberty to judge of what they had said; he appeals to any fair judgment…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. the soul--that is, the animal life. Man, reasons Job, is subjected to the same laws as the lower animals.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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