New International Version
Job 12:10
10In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.
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.
- 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?
- New Living Translation (NLT)For the life of every living thing is in his hand, and the breath of every human being.
Context of Job 12:10
8or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you. 9Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind. 11Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes food? 12Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?
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אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּ֭יָדוֹ נֶ֣פֶשׁ כָּל־חָ֑י וְ֝ר֗וּחַ כָּל־בְּשַׂר־אִֽישׁ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 12:10
- Numbers 16:22But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and cried out, “O God, the God who gives breath to all living things, will you be angry with the entire assembly when only one man sins?”
- Daniel 5:23Instead, you have set yourself up against the Lord of heaven. You had the goblets from his temple brought to you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you did not honor the God who holds in his hand your life and all your ways.
- Acts 17:25And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.
- Job 27:3as long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils,
- Job 34:14If it were his intention and he withdrew his spirit and breath,
- Genesis 2:7Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
- Genesis 6:17I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.
- Psalms 104:29When you hide your face, they are terrified; when you take away their breath, they die and return to the dust.
- Psalms 146:3Do not put your trust in princes, in human beings, who cannot save.
- John 3:6Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to 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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