Job 27:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

And the spirit of God is in my nostrils - As long as I live. The “spirit of God” here means the breath that God breathed into man when he created him, Genesis 2:7. It would seem probable that there was an allusion to that fact by the language here, and that the knowledge of the way in which man was created was thus handed down by tradition.

Job 27:3

3 All the while my breath is in me, and the spiritc of God is in my nostrils;