John Trapp on Job 27:3

Verſe 3 All the while my breath is in me] Periphraſis vitae, —Dum ſpiritus hos regat a[illegible: 1 letter]tus; Whiles I have an hour to breath, I will hold to this Oath of mine: neither may you ever hope to diſpute me out of mine integrity. Life is deſcribed by breath, which when it faileth, the man dyeth, 1 Kings 17.17. Pſal. 146.4. Iſai. 2.22. Ceaſe ye from man whoſe breath is in his noſtrils, every moment ready to puff out. What is man (ſaith Naz[illegible: 1 letter]anzen) but ſoul and ſoil,Eutrop. Oreſ. breath and body, a puff of wind the one, a pile of duſt the other, no ſolidity in either? Jovinian the Emperour, was choaked with the ſmoak of charcoal. Pope Adrian with a flye, getting into his throat as he gaped. The Cardinal of Lorrain was lighted to his Lodging, and to his long home both at once by a poiſoned Torch. Defer not (ſaith One) ſith at the next puffe of breath thou moiſt blow away thy life.

And the ſpirit of God is in my noſtrils] He ſeems to allude to Gen. 2.7. or ſome tradition of the Fathers to like purpoſe. Acts 17.25. God giveth to all life and breath, and all things. And again, verſe 28. In him we live, and move and have our being, Wherefore let every thing that hath breath praiſe the Lord, Pſal. 150. ult. Yea, let every breath (as ſome read it) praiſe the Lord. Let it be as the ſmoak of the Tabernacle, as Pillars of Incenſe aſcending up to heaven.Chryſoſt. Tam Dei meminiſſe opus eſt, quam reſpirare.