Job 12:10–12

²⁸For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

⁴The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.

²⁵Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

³All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

²²And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?

²³But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:

³Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

⁴His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

¹⁴If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;

¹⁵All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.

⁶That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

²⁹Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

⁷And 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.

¹⁷And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.

³For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.

¹⁴But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

³If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

³⁰Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

¹⁰That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;

¹⁵I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.

⁷I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.

¹⁰With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.

⁸For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: