Know and fully recognize with gratitude that the Lord Himself is God;
It is He who has made us, not we ourselves [and we are His].
We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

I will give thanks and praise to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Wonderful are Your works,
And my soul knows it very well.

Yet, O Lord, You are our Father;
We are the clay, and You our Potter,
And we all are the work of Your hand.

And breathed

As long as my life is within me,
And the breath of God is [still] in my nostrils,

“The Spirit of God has made me,
And the breath of the Almighty gives me life [which inspires me].

And when He said this, He breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, because it is He who gives to all [people] life and breath and all things.

Nostrils

Everything on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath and spirit of life, died.

Who knows if the spirit of man ascends upward and the spirit of the animal descends downward to the earth?

Stop regarding man, whose breath [of life] is in his nostrils [for so little time];
For why should he be esteemed?

A living

But they fell on their faces [before the Lord], and said, “O God, God of the spirits of all flesh! When one man sins, will You be angry with the entire congregation?”

“Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation

The spirit (conscience) of man is the lamp of the Lord,
Searching and examining all the innermost parts of his being.

The oracle (a burdensome message) of the word of the Lord concerning Israel.

Thus declares the Lord who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth and forms the spirit of man within him:

So it is written [in Scripture], “The first man, Adam, became a living soul (an individual);” the last Adam (Christ) became a life-giving spirit [restoring the dead to life].

Moreover, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we submitted and respected them [for training us]; shall we not much more willingly submit to the Father of spirits, and live [by learning from His discipline]?

General references

“The Spirit of God has made me,
And the breath of the Almighty gives me life [which inspires me].

Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth
And makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’

For Adam was formed first [by God from the earth], then Eve;