Job 12:10

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Job 12:8–12 · Berean Standard Bible

8 Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you.

9 Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?

10 The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.

11 Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its food?

12 Wisdom is found with the elderly, and understanding comes with long life.

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Numbers 16:22

But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will You be angry with the whole congregation?”

Daniel 5:23

Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you have failed to glorify the God who holds in His hand your very breath and all your ways.

Acts 17:25

Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.

Acts 17:28

‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’

Job 27:3

as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,

Job 34:14

If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,

Job 34:15

all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.

Genesis 2:7

Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

Genesis 6:17

And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.

Psalms 104:29

When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.

Psalms 146:3

Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.

Psalms 146:4

When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.

John 3:6

Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the Spirit.