Job 12:10
New International Version
In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.

New Living Translation
For the life of every living thing is in his hand, and the breath of every human being.

English Standard Version
In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.

Berean Standard Bible
The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.

King James Bible
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

New King James Version
In whose hand is the life of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?

New American Standard Bible
In whose hand is the life of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?

NASB 1995
In whose hand is the life of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?

NASB 1977
In whose hand is the life of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?

Legacy Standard Bible
In whose hand is the life of every living thing, And the breath of all the flesh of man?

Amplified Bible
In whose hand is the life of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?

Christian Standard Bible
The life of every living thing is in his hand, as well as the breath of all humanity.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.

American Standard Version
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because in his hand are the souls of everything that lives and the spirit of all flesh and man

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Whereas the life of all living things is in his hand, and the breath of every man.

Contemporary English Version
Every living creature is in the hands of God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all flesh of man.

English Revised Version
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The life of every living creature and the spirit in every human body are in his hands.

Good News Translation
It is God who directs the lives of his creatures; everyone's life is in his power.

International Standard Version
and that the life of every living thing rests in his control, along with the breath of every living human being?

JPS Tanakh 1917
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.--

Literal Standard Version
In whose hand [is] the breath of every living thing, | And the spirit of all flesh of man.

Majority Standard Bible
The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.

New American Bible
In his hand is the soul of every living thing, and the life breath of all mortal flesh.

NET Bible
in whose hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all the human race.

New Revised Standard Version
In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of every human being.

New Heart English Bible
in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all humankind?

Webster's Bible Translation
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

World English Bible
in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

Young's Literal Translation
In whose hand is the breath of every living thing, And the spirit of all flesh of man.'

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Context
Job Responds to Zophar
9Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this? 10 The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind. 11Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its food?…

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.'

Job 27:3
as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,

Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

Job 33:4
The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Job 34:14
If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,

Ecclesiastes 9:1
So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God's hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate.

Isaiah 42:5
This is what God the LORD says--He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it:


Treasury of Scripture

In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

whose hand

Numbers 16:22
And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?

Daniel 5:23
But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:

Acts 17:25,28
Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; …

soul.

Job 27:3
All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

Job 34:14,15
If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; …

Genesis 2:7
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

mankind.

John 3:6
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

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Verse 10. - In whose hand is the soul of every living thing. A brief summary of what had been said in vers. 7, 8, to which is now appended the further statement, that in God's hand - wholly dependent on him - is the entire race of mankind also. And the breath of all mankind; literally, and the spirit of all flesh of man.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The life
נֶ֣פֶשׁ (ne·p̄eš)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion

of every
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

living thing
חָ֑י (ḥāy)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life

is in His hand,
בְּ֭יָדוֹ (bə·yā·ḏōw)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3027: A hand

as well as the breath
וְ֝ר֗וּחַ (wə·rū·aḥ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - common singular construct
Strong's 7307: Wind, breath, exhalation, life, anger, unsubstantiality, a region of the sky, spirit

of all
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

mankind.
בְּשַׂר־ (bə·śar-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man


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