John Gill's Exposition on Job 27:3

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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All the while my breath [is] in me, etc.] So long the oath of God would be upon him, or he bound himself under it: and the spirit of God [is] in my nostrils; which signifies the same thing. The breath of a man is his spirit, and this is of God, the Father of spirits; he first breathed into man the breath of life, and he became a living soul or spirit, (<010207>Genesis 2:7); it is he that gives life and breath to every man, (<441725>Acts 17:25), and continues it as long as he pleases, which is a very precarious thing; for it is in his nostrils, where it is drawn to and fro and soon and easily stopped; nor will it always continue, it will some time not be, it will go forth, and then man dies, and returns to the earth, (<211207>Ecclesiastes 12:7); but as long as there is breath there is life; so that to say this is the same as to say, as long as I live, or have a being, (<19A433>Psalm 104:33 116:2); and while that continued, Job looked upon himself under the oath he had taken by the living God.

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