Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 34:14

14. If he set his heart upon man : if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath :

Heb. upon him, i. e. Man, as may seem probable from v. 11. & 15. where Man is expressed, and from the next Clause of this Verse where he speaks of that Spirit and Breath which is in Man. If his eye and heart be upon man, if he diligently and exactly observe him and all his ways, and whatsoever is amiss in him, and which follows upon it of course, resolve to punish him. Or, if he set his heart against (as this Particle el is used, Amos 7. 15. and elsewhere, as hath been noted before) him, to wit, to cut him off.

If it please him to gather to himself, to wit, by death, whereby God is said to take away mens Breath▪ Psal. 104. 29. and to gather mens Souls, Psal. 26. 9. and the Spirit is said to return unto God, Eccles. 12. 7.

i. e. That Spirit and Breath, or that living Soul that God breathed into Man, Gen. 2. 7. and gives to every Man that cometh into the World.

Marginal references: Ps. 104. 29.; Heb. upon him.