¹⁰ In whose hand is the life of every living thing, The breath of all mankind?

²⁸ 'For in him we live, and move, and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring.'

³ (For the length of my life is still in me, And the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

²² They fell on their faces, and said, God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?

³ Don't put your trust in princes, Each a son of man in whom there is no help.

⁴ His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

¹⁴ If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath;

¹⁵ All flesh would perish together, And man would turn again to dust.

⁴ The Spirit of God has made me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

²⁵ neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

⁶ That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

²³ but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which don't see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.

²⁹ You hide your face: they are troubled; You take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.

¹⁷ I, even, I do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

⁷ Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.