28 occurrences in 13 translations

'Living' in the Bible

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

Verse ConceptsFoundationsInsectsProperty, HousesMan, Insignificance OfMothsMetaphorical HousesCreatures From Dust

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

Verse ConceptsLaughterFear, Of NaturalWild Beasts SubduedHelp In ShortageFreed From FearOvercoming Adversity

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

Verse ConceptsLife, HumanLonelinessVanityLeave Us AloneMan A Mere BreathNot For EverLife Despised

"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.

Verse ConceptsComplaintsHealthBeing BitterResentment, Against GodSelf PitySuicideWeariness Of LifeLife DespisedDeath DesiredComplainingBitternesstiredventing

“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].

Verse ConceptsemptinessFalse ConfidenceUseless ThingsTrust, Lack OfTrusting Deceptive ThingsDeceiving OneselfUseless Endeavour

“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.

Verse ConceptsGod Appointed AfflictionsTargetsThose At Ease

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

Verse ConceptsNo SurvivorsReasons For Barrenness

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.

Verse ConceptsAgony, DeathState Of The Dead

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

Verse ConceptsTasteIs God Unjust?Bitterness

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.

Verse ConceptsWidowsActual WidowsNot Mourning

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.

Verse ConceptsFeetSwinging

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

Verse ConceptsIgnorant Of FactsValue

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

Verse ConceptsGod's Things Concealed

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

Verse ConceptsRocksPeople In Caves

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

Verse ConceptsPartiality

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

Verse ConceptsSaved From The Pit

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

Verse ConceptsDeath For Other ReasonsWork Ethicdust

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

Verse ConceptsEmpty By NatureTaking Care Of The Earth

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

Verse ConceptsGrowing Up

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

Verse ConceptsLiving In The Wilderness

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