Job 12:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind. 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.

Job 12:10

10 In whose hand is the soulb of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.