'Living' in the Bible

Therefore the Jews in the rural [areas], living in the rural towns, made the fourteenth month of Adar a day of joy and feasting, a festive day of giving gifts to each other.

How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;

“You will laugh at violence and famine,And you will not be afraid of the wild beasts of the earth.

I would rather die by strangulation than continue living.

I hate the thought of living forever! Leave me alone, because my days are pointless."

"I am disgusted with living, so I'm going to talk about my complaint freely. I'll speak out from the bitterness of my soul.

In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

“You prevail forever against him and overpower him, and he passes on;You change his appearance and send him away [from the presence of the living].

“Let him not trust in vanity (emptiness, futility) and be led astray;For emptiness will be his reward [for such living].

“I was [living] at ease, but He crushed me and broke me apart,And He has seized me by the neck and has shaken me to pieces;He has also set me up as His target.

He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name.

My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.

But I know my living Redeemer,and He will stand on the dust at last.

"Why do the wicked go on living, grow old, even increase in power?

Although you were a powerful man, owning land, an honored man living on it,

The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.

"The living God has withheld justice from me; the Almighty has made my life bitter.

When those of his house who are still living come to their end by disease, they are not put into the earth, and their widows are not weeping for them.

He makes a deep mine far away from those living in the light of day; when they go about on the earth, they have no knowledge of those who are under them, who are hanging far from men, twisting from side to side on a cord.

Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.

Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.

They are living on the slopes of the wadis,among the rocks and in holes in the ground.

For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

Let me not give respect to any man, or give names of honour to any living.

To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.

every living thing would perish togetherand mankind would return to the dust.

Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;

Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again.

To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.

The wicked [those who live in disobedience to God’s law] are not so,But they are like the chaff [worthless and without substance] which the wind blows away.

Therefore the wicked will not stand [unpunished] in the judgment,Nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

For the Lord knows and fully approves the way of the righteous,But the way of the wicked shall perish.

Lord, who may have a resting-place in your tent, a living-place on your holy hill?

The Lord is living; praise be to my Rock, and let the God of my salvation be honoured.

The earth is the Lord's, with all its wealth; the world and all the people living in it.

I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

From his house he keeps watch on all who are living on the earth;

To keep their souls from death; and to keep them living in time of need.

The upright will have the earth for their heritage, and will go on living there for ever.

My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

By day the Lord decrees his loyal love, and by night he gives me a song, a prayer to the living God.

You, by your power, defeated nations and settled our fathers on their land; you crushed the people living there and enabled our ancestors to occupy it.

I will keep the memory of your name living through all generations; and because of this the people will give you praise for ever.

Give attention to this, all you peoples; let your ears be open, all you who are living in the world.

that he should go on living and not see corruption.

Though he congratulated his soul while he was living --and [people] will praise you when you do well for yourself--

God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

I would go wandering far away, living in the waste land. (Selah.)

Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.

For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

You answer our prayers by performing awesome acts of deliverance, O God, our savior. All the ends of the earth trust in you, as well as those living across the wide seas.

Those living at the furthest ends of the earth are seized by fear because of your miraculous deeds. You make the going forth of the morning and the evening shout for joy.

Who keeps us among the living,And does not allow our feet to slip or stumble.

Then those living on earth will know what you are like; all nations will know how you deliver your people.

Let foreigners rejoice and celebrate! For you execute justice among the nations, and govern the people living on earth. (Selah)

Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

In his days may the upright do well, living in peace as long as there is a moon in heaven.

So I allowed them to continue in their stubbornness, living by their own advice.

My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

For a day in your house is better than a thousand. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to be living in the tents of sin.

What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah.)

[They are living memorials] to declare that the Lord is upright and faithful [to His promises];He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

I will pay attention to living a life of integrity when will I attain it? I will live with integrity of heart in my house.

How many living things you have made, O Lord! You have exhibited great skill in making all of them; the earth is full of the living things you have made.

Here is the sea, vast and wide,teeming with creatures beyond number—living things both large and small.

May the splendor of the Lord endure! May the Lord find pleasure in the living things he has made!

Then Israel came into Egypt, and Jacob was living in the land of Ham.

He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.

To obey the Lord is the fundamental principle for wise living; all who carry out his precepts acquire good moral insight. He will receive praise forever.

He will not ever be moved; the memory of the upright will be living for ever.

I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

I am living in a strange land: do not let your teachings be kept secret from me.

Your rules have been melodies to me, while I have been living in strange lands.

Let Your priests be clothed with righteousness (right living),And let Your godly ones shout for joy.

See how good and how pleasing it is for brothers to be living together in harmony!

to the one who gives food to all living things, for his loyal love endures.

I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.

And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.

My mouth will declare Yahweh’s praise;let every living thingpraise His holy name forever and ever.

living creatures and livestock, insects and flying birds,

for acquiring the discipline that produces wise behavior, righteousness, justice, and upright living;

Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;

But whoever gives ear to me will take his rest safely, living in peace without fear of evil.

For the upright will be living in the land, and the good will have it for their heritage.

For length of days and years of life [worth living]And tranquility and prosperity [the wholeness of life’s blessings] they will add to you.

Do not plan to harm your neighbor, when he is living peacefully beside you.

Good living beseemeth not a fool; how much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

It is better to be living in a waste land, than with a bitter-tongued and angry woman.

It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

What advantage does man have from all his workWhich he does under the sun (while earthbound)?

Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

Yes, happier than the dead or the living seemed he who has not ever been, who has not seen the evil which is done under the sun.

I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.

And though he goes on living a thousand years twice over and does not see good, are not the two going to the same place?

For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

For there are many other words that increase futility. What then is the advantage for a man?