'People' in the Bible

His possessions included 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys; in addition he had a very great household. Thus he was the greatest of all the people in the east.

and suddenly a great wind swept across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they died! And I -- only I alone -- escaped to tell you!"

Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed?

but people are born to trouble, as surely as the sparks fly upward.

Will your idle talk reduce people to silence, and will no one rebuke you when you mock?

"Without a doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

People have opened their mouths against me, they have struck my cheek in scorn; they unite together against me.

He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face they spit.

He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.

People of the west are appalled at his fate; people of the east are seized with horror, saying,

People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.

When people are brought low and you say 'Lift them up!' then he will save the downcast;

Far from where people live he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, far from other people he dangles and sways.

"People listened to me and waited silently; they kept silent for my advice.

They waited for me as people wait for the rain, and they opened their mouths as for the spring rains.

They were banished from the community -- people shouted at them like they would shout at thieves --

Sons of senseless and nameless people, they were driven out of the land with whips.

Because God has untied my tent cord and afflicted me, people throw off all restraint in my presence.

But it is a spirit in people, the breath of the Almighty, that makes them understand.

In a dream, a night vision, when deep sleep falls on people as they sleep in their beds.

Then he gives a revelation to people, and terrifies them with warnings,

In a moment they die, in the middle of the night, people are shaken and they pass away. The mighty are removed effortlessly.

He strikes them for their wickedness, in a place where people can see,

so that the godless man should not rule, and not lay snares for the people.

Your wickedness affects only a person like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.

"People cry out because of the excess of oppression; they cry out for help because of the power of the mighty.

Indeed, God is mighty; and he does not despise people, he is mighty, and firm in his intent.

Do not long for the cover of night to drag people away from their homes.

Remember to extol his work, which people have praised in song.

All humanity has seen it; people gaze on it from afar.

He causes everyone to stop working, so that all people may know his work.

Therefore people fear him, for he does not regard all the wise in heart."