17 Bible Verses about Physical Life

Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

“The Lord kills and makes alive;
He brings down to Sheol and raises up.

For as long as life is in me,
And the breath of God is in my nostrils,

You send forth Your Spirit, they are created;
And You renew the face of the ground.

nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things;

So Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my sojourning are one hundred and thirty; few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, nor have they attained the years that my fathers lived during the days of their sojourning.”

For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
And come to an end without hope.

“For we are only of yesterday and know nothing,
Because our days on earth are as a shadow.

“Now my days are swifter than a runner;
They flee away, they see no good.

“Like a flower he comes forth and withers.
He also flees like a shadow and does not remain.

“Behold, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my lifetime as nothing in Your sight;
Surely every man at his best is a mere breath. Selah.

Remember what my span of life is;
For what vanity You have created all the sons of men!

For all our days have declined in Your fury;
We have finished our years like a sigh.

My days are like a lengthened shadow,
And I wither away like grass.

For who knows what is good for a man during his lifetime, during the few years of his futile life? He will spend them like a shadow. For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

“Like a shepherd’s tent my dwelling is pulled up and removed from me;
As a weaver I rolled up my life.
He cuts me off from the loom;
From day until night You make an end of me.