17 Bible Verses about Physical Life

then the Lord God formed [that is, created the body of] man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being [an individual complete in body and spirit].

“The Lord puts to death and makes alive;
He brings down to Sheol (the grave) and raises up [from the grave].

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

You send out Your Spirit, they are created;
You renew the face of the ground.

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.

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. Few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, and they have not reached the years that my fathers lived during the days of their pilgrimage.”

For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope [of remaining].

“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
And are spent without hope.

“For we are only of yesterday and know nothing,
Because our days on earth are [like] a shadow [just a breath or a vapor].

“Now my days are swifter than a runner;
They vanish, they see no good.

“Like a flower he comes forth and withers;
He also flees like a shadow and does not remain.

“Behold, You have made my days as [short as] hand widths,
And my lifetime is as nothing in Your sight.
Surely every man at his best is a mere breath [a wisp of smoke, a vapor that vanishes]! Selah.

Remember how fleeting my lifetime is;
For what vanity, [for what emptiness, for what futility, for what wisp of smoke] You have created all the sons of men!

For all our days pass away in Your wrath;
We have finished our years like a whispered sigh.

My days are like an evening shadow that lengthens and vanishes [with the sun];
And as for me, I wither away like grass.

For who [limited by human wisdom] knows what is good for man during his lifetime, during the few days of his futile life? He spends them like a shadow [staying busy, but achieving nothing of lasting value]. For who can tell a man what will happen after him [to his work, his treasure, his plans] under the sun [after his life is over]?

“My dwelling (body) is pulled up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent;
I have rolled up my life as a weaver [rolls up the finished web].
He cuts me free from the warp [of the loom];
From day to night You bring me to an end.