17 Bible Verses about Physical Life

The LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

"The LORD kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.

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

You send forth your Spirit: they are created. You renew the face of the ground.

neither is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."

For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

"Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, they see no good,

He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.

Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.

Remember how short my time is. For what vanity have you created all the children of men.

For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.