Job 34:14
If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,
BSB
ASV
If he set his heart upon himself, If he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;
KJV
If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;
If he hath directed his heart towards Him, He will gather to Himself his spirit, and his breath. The heart is crooked, when it seeks for things below. It is made straight when it is raised to things above. If a man therefore direct his heart to the Lord, the Lord draws to Himself his spirit and his breath. He uses, namely, spirit for inward thoughts, but breath, which is drawn through the body, for outward actions.
If he set his heart upon man - I think this and the following verse should be read thus: - “If he set his heart upon man, he will gather his soul and breath to himself; for all flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.” On whomsoever God sets his heart, that is, his love, though his body shall perish and turn to dust, like the rest of men, yet his soul will God gather to himself.
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
Job 7:17What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him,
leads to
But somewhere it is testified in these words: “What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?
Through
Psalms 104:29When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
leads to
If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,
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.
When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.
Through
Isaiah 24:22They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit. They will be confined to a dungeon and punished after many days.
leads to
As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.