'Life' in the Bible

But Satan answered the Lord, "Skin for skin! Indeed, a man will give up all that he has to save his life!

So the Lord said to Satan, "All right, he is in your power; only preserve his life."

"Why does God give light to one who is in misery, and life to those whose soul is bitter,

What is my strength, that I should wait? and what is my end, that I should prolong my life?

Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.

so that I would prefer strangling, and death more than life.

I am blameless. I do not know myself. I despise my life.

"I am weary of my life; I will complain without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

You gave me life and favor, and your intervention watched over my spirit.

And life will be brighter than the noonday; though there be darkness, it will be like the morning.

in whose hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all the human race.

Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?

Why do I put myself in peril, and take my life in my hands?

But God drags off the mighty by his power; when God rises up against him, he has no faith in his life.

"As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter --

For what hope does the godless have when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

I have not even permitted my mouth to sin by asking for his life through a curse --

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

He spares a person's life from corruption, his very life from crossing over the river.

so that his life loathes food, and his soul rejects appetizing fare.

He draws near to the place of corruption, and his life to the messengers of death.

He redeemed my life from going down to the place of corruption, and my life sees the light!'

to turn back his life from the place of corruption, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.

They die in their youth, and their life ends among the male cultic prostitutes.

Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, or made the dawn know its place,

Will it make a pact with you, so you could take it as your slave for life?

So the Lord blessed the second part of Job's life more than the first. He had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.