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

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Parallel Verses

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

English Standard Version
In his 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?

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

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

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

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

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

Darby Bible Translation
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all flesh of man.

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

Cross References

Acts 17:28
For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

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

Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when God takes away his soul?

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

Job 34:14
If he set his heart on man, if he gather to himself his spirit and his breath;

Ecclesiastes 9:1
For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knows either love or hatred by all that is before them.

Isaiah 42:5
Thus said God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which comes out of it; he that gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to them that walk therein:

Daniel 5:23
But have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you, and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine in them; and you have 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 your breath is, and whose are all your ways, have you not glorified:

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

12:6-11 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

10. the soul—that is, the animal life. Man, reasons Job, is subjected to the same laws as the lower animals.