Job 12:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁰In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

Job 12:10 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 33:4
The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
Acts 17:25
Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
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?
Job 27:3
All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God Design Devotion God Graces Guidance Ignorance

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-11)

Job’s friends all of them went upon this principle, that wicked people cannot prosper long in this world, but some remarkable judgment or other will suddenly light on them: Zophar had concluded with it, that the eyes of the wicked shall fail, Job 11:20. This principle Job here opposes, and maintains that God, in disposing men’s outward affairs, acts as a sovereign, reserving the exact distribution…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 10)

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