John Trapp on Job 12:10

Verſe 10. In whoſe hand is the ſoul of every living thing] That is, the life of every beaſt, flowing from a ſenſitive ſoul, Lev. 17, 10, 11. This, God both giveth to the creature, and conſerveth it: he ſuffereth it not to be taken away from little ſparrows, or the like, without order from him: much leſſe befalleth any ſuch thing to man without his ſingular providence, ſith our very hairs alſo are numbred, Matth. 10.30. Luke 12.7. The Jew-doctors do therefore offer manifeſt injurie to Job, when they ſay, that he held indeed that God created, and doth preſerve the ſeveral kinds of things, but permitteth the particulars and individua's to hap-hazard; whereas here he delivereth his judgment plainly to the contrary, when he ſaith,

And the breath of all mankind] Heb. The ſpirit of all mans fleſh (and ſo Broughton readeth it) that is, of every mans body: hence God is called the God of the ſpirits of all fleſh, Numb. 16.22. and the Father of Spirits, Heb. 12.9. and the Former of the ſpirit of man within him, Zech. 12.1. My times are in thine hand, ſaith David, Pſalm 31.15. God preſerves our lives as a light in a lantern: and we may be glad it is in ſo ſafe an hand; we ſhould therefore honour him, as Daniel telleth Belſhazzer, Dan. 5.23. yea, let every thing that hath breath praiſe the Lord, Pſalm 150.6. Or as the Hebrew hath it, Let every breath praiſe the Lord: as oft as we breathe, we are to breathe out the praiſe of God, and to make our breath like the ſmoak of the Tabernacle:Iſai. 3. ult. this we ſhould do the rather, becauſe our breath is in our nostrils, every moment ready to puffe out, and the grave cannot praiſe God, death cannot celebrate him, Iſai. 38.18.