Job 27:3
as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,
BSB
ASV
(For my life is yet whole in me, And the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
KJV
All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
All the while my breath is in me, and the Spirit of God is in my nostrils, my lips shall not speak iniquity, nor my tongue meditate falsehood. What he first calls 'iniquity,' this repeating afterwards he calls 'falsehood.' For both all 'falsehood' is 'iniquity,' and all 'iniquity' 'falsehood,' because, whatever thing is at variance with truth is surely at odds with equity. But between this which he expresses, 'to speak' and that which he adds afterwards, to 'meditate,' there is a wide difference. For sometimes it is a worse thing to 'meditate' falsehood than to speak it.
Implying Job's knowledge of the fact that the living soul was breathed into man by God (Ge 2:7). "All the while." But MAURER, "As yet all my breath is in me" (notwithstanding my trials): the reason why I can speak so boldly.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Genesis 2:7Then 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.
leads to
The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being;” the last Adam a life-giving spirit.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.
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Job 33:4The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
leads to
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.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
But there is a spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding.
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Isaiah 2:22Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
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This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.