Job 33:4
The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
BSB
ASV
The Spirit of God hath made me, And the breath of the Almighty giveth me life.
KJV
The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
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 Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life. Intending to subjoin truth, he first uttered boastful words, and being about to state the sound opinions he held, he first made known how huge was his swelling. The minds of the arrogant are doubtless so very mad, that even in what they think rightly, they are disfigured by the deformity of their pride. And hence even their sound opinions do not instruct their hearers, because in truth they lead them by their haughty sentiments not to reverence but to despise them.
He owns himself unfit to enter into the lists with his seniors, yet he desires they will not despise his youth, for that he is God's workmanship as well as they, made by the same hand, endued with the same noble powers and faculties, and designed for the same great end; and therefore why may not the God that made him make use of his as an instrument of good to Job?
The Spirit of God hath made me - Another plain allusion to the account of the creation of man, Gen 2:7, as the words נשמת nishmath, the breath or breathing of God, and תחיני techaiyeni, hath given me life, prove: “He breathed into his nostrils the breath of lives, and he became a living soul.”
On the other hand, "the breath of the Almighty hath inspired me" (as Job 32:8); not as English Version, "given me life"; therefore "I am according to thy wish (Job 9:32, 33) in God's stead" to thee; a "daysman," umpire, or mediator, between God and thee. So Elihu was designed by the Holy Ghost to be a type of Jesus Christ (Job 33:23-26).
The walk8
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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.
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before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being;” the last Adam a life-giving spirit.
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.
The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven.
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1 Corinthians 15:45So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being;” the last Adam a life-giving spirit.
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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.
For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He wishes.