BIBLE COMMENTARY / Job 12: 10

JOB 12: 10 – In Whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

– God is the One Who will judge all mankind at the end. He will decide who will live happily forever with Him in Heaven, and who will suffer in hell for eternity (Ezekiel 18: 4, 20).
– Humans have souls because God breathed His breath, the breath of life, into Adam when He made him (Genesis 2: 7) and then from Adam, multiplied into billions of other souls (1Corinthians 15: 45).
– God is also the One Who decides how long a person lives on this Earth, according to his deeds (1Kings 3: 14, Ecclesiastes 8: 13).

QUOTED VERSES:

GENESIS 2: 7 – And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

1KINGS 3: 14 – And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.

ECCLESIASTES 8: 13 – But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

EZEKIEL 18: 4 – Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

EZEKIEL 18: 20 – The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

1CORINTHIANS 15: 45 – And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.