17 Bible Verses about Physical Life

when Yahweh God formed the man [of] dust from the ground, and he blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Yahweh kills and restores alive, he brings down [to] Sheol and raises up.

For {as long as} my breath [is] in me, and the spirit of God [is] in my nose,

You send forth your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of [the] ground.

nor is he served by human hands [as if he] needed anything, [because] he himself gives to everyone life and breath and everything.

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojourning [are] one hundred and thirty years. Few and hard have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the lives of my ancestors in the days of their sojourning."

For we [are] strangers before you and sojourners like all our ancestors. Our days [are] like the shadow upon earth, and there is no hope [of abiding].

"My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end {without hope}.

for we [are of] yesterday, and we do not know, for our days on earth [are] a shadow.

"And my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they do not see good.

Like a flower he comes up, and he withers away; and he flees like a shadow, but he does not last.

Look, you have made my days [mere] handbreadths, and my lifespan as nothing next to you. Surely every person standing firm [is] complete vanity. Selah

Remember what my lifespan [is]. [Remember] for what vanity you have created all [the] children of humankind.

For all of our days dwindle away in your rage; we complete our years like a sigh.

My days [are] like a lengthened shadow, and I wither like grass.

For who knows what [is] good for a man in his life during the few days of his fleeting life, which are fleeting as a shadow? For who can tell anyone what will happen {in the future} under the sun?

My dwelling place is pulled up and removed from me like the tent of my shepherd; I have rolled up my life like weaver. He cuts me off from [the] thrum; from day to night you bring me to an end.