'Life' in the Bible

Then they called on the Lord and said, “Please, O Lord, do not let us perish because of taking this man’s life, and do not make us accountable for innocent blood; for You, O Lord, have done as You pleased.”

“The waters surrounded me, to the point of death.The great deep engulfed me,Seaweed was wrapped around my head.

“I descended to the [very] roots of the mountains.The earth with its bars closed behind me [bolting me in] forever,Yet You have brought up my life from the pit (death), O Lord my God.

Therefore now, O Lord, just take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”