Job 12:10

New Century Version

The life of every creature and the breath of all people are in God’s hand.

Cross References

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God took dust from the ground and formed a man from it. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nose, and the man became a living person.

Genesis 6:17

I will bring a flood of water on the earth to destroy all living things that live under the sky, including everything that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will die.

Job 27:3

as long as I am alive and God’s breath of life is in my nose,

Job 27:8

What hope do the wicked have when they die, when God takes their life away?

Job 33:4

The Spirit of God created me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me life.

Psalm 104:29

When you turn away from them, they become frightened. When you take away their breath, they die and turn to dust.

Psalm 104:30

When you breathe on them, they are created, and you make the land new again.

Ecclesiastes 9:1

I thought about all this and tried to understand it. I saw that God controls good people and wise people and what they do, but no one knows if they will experience love or hate.

Isaiah 42:5

God, the Lord, said these things. He created the skies and stretched them out. He spread out the earth and everything on it. He gives life to all people on earth, to everyone who walks on the earth.

Isaiah 57:16

I will not accuse forever, nor will I always be angry, because then human life would grow weak. Human beings, whom I created, would die.

Daniel 5:23

Instead, you have set yourself against the Lord of heaven. You ordered the drinking cups from the Temple of the Lord to be brought to you. Then you and your royal guests, your wives, and your slave women drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone that are not really gods; they cannot see or hear or understand anything. You did not honor God, who has power over your life and everything you do.

Numbers 16:22

But Moses and Aaron bowed facedown and cried out, “God, you are the God over the spirits of all people. Please don’t be angry with this whole group. Only one man has really sinned.”

John 3:6

Human life comes from human parents, but spiritual life comes from the Spirit.

Acts 17:25

This God is the One who gives life, breath, and everything else to people. He does not need any help from them; he has everything he needs.

Acts 17:28

‘By his power we live and move and exist.’ Some of your own poets have said: ‘For we are his children.’