Job 12:10

In whose hand is the soul of every living thing - חי כל נפש nephesh col chai , "the soul of all life."

And the breath of all mankind - בשר כל ורוח veruach col besar , "and the spirit or breath of all flesh." Does not the first refer to the immortal soul, the principle of all intellectual life; and the latter to the breath, respiration, the grand means by which animal existence is continued? See Job 10:1 .