'Breath' in the Bible

Stop trusting in human beings, whose life's breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?

For you are a protector for the poor, a protector for the needy in their distress, a shelter from the rainstorm, a shade from the heat. Though the breath of tyrants is like a winter rainstorm,

For the burial place is already prepared; it has been made deep and wide for the king. The firewood is piled high on it. The Lord's breath, like a stream flowing with brimstone, will ignite it.

You conceive straw, you give birth to chaff; your breath is a fire that destroys you.

This is what the true God, the Lord, says -- the one who created the sky and stretched it out, the one who fashioned the earth and everything that lives on it, the one who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who live on it:

For I will not be hostile forever or perpetually angry, for then man's spirit would grow faint before me, the life-giving breath I created.