Job 27:3 - Exposition

All the while my breath is in me. This verse is parenthetic. Job claims in it to be in possession of all his faculties, notwithstanding his sufferings. The right translation would seem to be, "For my life is yet whole within me" (see the Revised Version). And the spirit of God is in my nostrils . The spirit of God, originally breathed into man's nostrils, whereby he became a living soul ( Genesis 2:7 ), is still, Job says, within him, and makes him capable of judging and declaring what is right.