Satan answered the LORD, and said, "Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

The LORD said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life."

"Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

At destruction and famine you shall laugh, neither shall you be afraid of the animals of the earth.

Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.

I loathe my life. I do not want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

I am blameless. I do not regard myself. I despise my life.

"My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.

Life shall be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it shall be as the morning.

in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?

Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?

If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.

"Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.

"Those who are deceased tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

(For the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.

(yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);

if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of Shaddai gives me life.

He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.

Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life shall see the light.'

He doesn't preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to the afflicted their right.

They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.

"The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; but are they the feathers and plumage of love?