'Life' in the Bible

Let the enemy pursue after my soul, and take it, and let him tread down my life to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.

Thou wilt make known to me the path of life: thy countenance is fulness of joy; at thy right hand are pleasures for evermore.

From men who are thy hand, O Jehovah, from men of this age: their portion is in this life, and their belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure; they have their fill of sons, and leave the rest of their substance to their children.

He asked life of thee; thou gavest it him, length of days for ever and ever.

Surely, goodness and loving-kindness shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of Jehovah for the length of the days.

Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with men of blood;

{A Psalm of David.} Jehovah is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? Jehovah is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

One thing have I asked of Jehovah, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Jehovah, and to inquire of him in his temple.

For a moment is passed in his anger, a life in his favour; at even weeping cometh for the night, and at morn there is rejoicing.

For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength faileth through mine iniquity, and my bones are wasted.

For I have heard the slander of many terror on every side when they take counsel together against me: they plot to take away my life.

What man is he that desireth life, and loveth days, that he may see good?

Let them be put to shame and confounded that seek after my life; let them be turned backward and brought to confusion that devise my hurt:

For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.

And they that seek after my life lay snares for me; and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all the day long.

In the day-time will Jehovah command his loving-kindness, and in the night his song shall be with me, a prayer unto the God of my life.

For strangers are risen up against me, and the violent seek after my life: they have not set God before them. Selah.

For thy loving-kindness is better than life: my lips shall praise thee.

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} Hear, O God, my voice in my plaint; preserve my life from fear of the enemy:

Who hath set our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.

Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.

He made a way for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh to Sheol.

Remember, as regards me, what life is. Wherefore hast thou created all the children of men to be vanity?

Who redeemeth thy life from the pit, who crowneth thee with loving-kindness and tender mercies;

My life is continually in my hand; but I do not forget thy law.

Jehovah will bless thee out of Zion; and mayest thou see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life,

As the dew of Hermon that descendeth on the mountains of Zion; for there hath Jehovah commanded the blessing, life for evermore.

For the enemy persecuteth my soul: he hath crushed my life down to the earth; he hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.