17 Bible Verses about Physical Life

Jehovah God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. The man became a living being.

Jehovah kills and makes alive. He brings down to the grave and brings up.

As long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils,

You send out your Spirit, and they are created. You renew the face of the earth.

Men's hands do not serve him as if he needed anything. He gives life and breath to all.

Jacob answered: My life of wandering has lasted a hundred and thirty years. Those years have been few and difficult, unlike the long years of my ancestors in their wanderings.

You know, O Jehovah that we pass through life like exiles and strangers, as our ancestors did. Our days are like a passing shadow, and we cannot escape death.

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle flying back and forth. They end without hope.

After all we were born only yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are a mere shadow.

My days are swifter than a runner! They flee away and see no good.

He springs up like a flower and fades away. He is like a fleeting shadow and does not endure.

Indeed, you have made the length of my days very short. My life span is nothing compared to yours. Certainly, everyone alive is like a whisper in the wind.

Remember how short my life span is! Have you created the sons of men for no reason?

Indeed, all our days slip away because of your fury. We live out our years like one long sigh.

My days are like a lengthened shadow and I wither away like grass.

Who knows what is good for man in this life? Are all the days of his vain life that he spends like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will happen after his existence under the sun?

My life was over. You rolled it up like a shepherd's tent. You rolled up my life like a weaver. You cut me off from the loom. You ended my life in one day.