The word can be, and probably should have been, translated as "breath." Man's breath goes upwards, an animals goes downward.

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Willard (Bill) Paul, Pastor
Clear Creek Baptist Church (SBC)
Silverdale, WA

"It is not what a man says he will do, but what he does,
that determines his character and reveals his ethic."

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