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Selected Verse: Job 12:10 - Basic English

Verse	Translation	Text
Job 12:10	Basic English	In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all flesh of man.
	King James	In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
the soul--that is, the animal life. Man, reasons Job, is subjected to the same laws as the lower animals.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

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

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
In 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 man." The margin is in accordance with the Hebrew. The meaning is, that man is subjected to the same laws as the rest of the creation. God is a sovereign, and the same great principles of administration may be seen in all his works.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

In 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 man." The margin is in accordance with the Hebrew. The meaning is, that man is subjected to the same laws as the rest of the creation. God is a sovereign, and the same great principles of administration may be seen in all his works.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing - נפש כל חי nephesh col chai, "the soul of all life." And the breath of all mankind - ורוח כל בשר 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.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826

In whose hand is the soul of every living thing - נפש כל חי nephesh col chai, "the soul of all life."

And the breath of all mankind - ורוח כל בשר 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.

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