10In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
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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.
The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
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?
All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
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 distributio…
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