Job 12:10

New English Translation

in whose hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all the human race.

Cross References

Genesis 2:7

The Lord God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

Genesis 6:17

I am about to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. Everything that is on the earth will die,

Job 27:3

for while my spirit is still in me, and the breath from God is in my nostrils,

Job 27:8

For what hope does the godless have when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

Job 33:4

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Psalm 104:29

When you ignore them, they panic. When you take away their life’s breath, they die and return to dust.

Psalm 104:30

When you send your life-giving breath, they are created, and you replenish the surface of the ground.

Ecclesiastes 9:1

So I reflected on all this, attempting to clear it all up. I concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their works, are in the hand of God; whether a person will be loved or hated – no one knows what lies ahead.

Isaiah 42:5

This is what the true God, the Lord, says – the one who created the sky and stretched it out, the one who fashioned the earth and everything that lives on it, the one who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who live on it:

Isaiah 57:16

For I will not be hostile forever or perpetually angry, for then man’s spirit would grow faint before me, the life-giving breath I created.

Daniel 5:23

Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. You brought before you the vessels from his temple, and you and your nobles, together with your wives and concubines, drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone – gods that cannot see or hear or comprehend! But you have not glorified the God who has in his control your very breath and all your ways!

Numbers 16:22

Then they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all people, will you be angry with the whole community when only one man sins?”

John 3:6

What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Acts 17:25

nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone.

Acts 17:28

For in him we live and move about and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’