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Job Affirms His Integrity

Job 27:3

In 11 translations

BSB
as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,
KJV
All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;the spirit…: that is, the breath which God gave him
WEB
(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
ASV
(For my life is yet whole in me, And the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
LSV
For all the while my breath [is] in me, || And the wind of God in my nostrils.
YLT
For all the while my breath [is] in me, And the spirit of God in my nostrils.
DBY
All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,Eloah
DRC
As long as breath remaineth in me, and the spirit of God in my nostrils,
GNV
Yet so long as my breath is in me, and the Spirit of God in my nostrels,
JPS
All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,
LXXE
verily, while my breath is yet in me, and the breath of God which remains to me is in my nostrils,

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Original-language editions

WLC
כִּֽי־כָל־ע֣וֹד נִשְׁמָתִ֣י בִ֑י וְר֖וּחַ אֱל֣וֹהַּ בְּאַפִּֽי׃
LXX-Br
εἰ μὴν ἔτι τῆς πνοῆς μου ἐνούσης, πνεῦμα δὲ θεῖον τὸ περιόν μοι ἐν ῥινὶ,

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Genesis 2:7Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
  • Job 33:4The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
  • Job 32:8But there is a spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding.
  • Isaiah 2:22Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
  • Acts 17:25Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.

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