1734 verses about Life

Many shall commend his understanding; And so long as the world endures, it shall not be blotted out: His memorial shall not depart, And his name shall live from generation to generation.

If he continue, he shall leave a greater name than a thousand: And if he die, he adds thereto.

The chief of all things necessary for the life of man Are water, and fire, and iron, and salt, And flour of wheat, and honey, and milk, The blood of the grape, and oil, and clothing.

All the works of the Lord are good: And he will supply every need in its season.

Great travail is created for every man, And a heavy yoke is upon the sons of Adam, From the day of their coming forth from their mother’s womb, Until the day for their burial in the mother of all things.

From him that sits on a throne of glory, Even to him that is humbled in earth and ashes;

The sedge that grows upon every water and bank of a river Shall be plucked up before all grass.

The life of one that labores, and is contented, shall be made sweet; And he that finds a treasure is above both.

A man that looks to the table of another, His life is not to be counted for a life; He will pollute his soul with another man’s meats: But a man wise and well-instructed will beware thereof.

O death, how bitter is the remembrance of you to a man that is at peace in his possessions, To the man that has nothing to distract him, and has prosperity in all things, And that still has strength to receive meat!

Don’t be afraid of the sentence of death; Remember those who have been before you, and that come after: This is the sentence from the Lord over all flesh.

And why do you refuse, when it is the good pleasure of the Most High? Whether it be ten, or a hundred, or a thousand years, There is no inquisition of life in the grave.

A good life has its number of days; And a good name continueth forever.

All these things live and remain forever in all manner of uses, And they are all obedient.

Therein be also those strange and wondrous works, Variety of all that has life, the race of sea-monsters.

By reason of him his end has success, And by his word all things consist.

All these were honored in their generations, And were a glory in their days.

Their bodies were buried in peace, And their name lives to all generations.

He made him to hear his voice, And led him into the thick darkness, And gave him commandments face to face, Even the law of life and knowledge, That he might teach Jacob the covenant, And Israel his judgments.

After him rose up a son, a man of understanding; And for his sake he lived at large.

Blessed are those who saw you, And those who have been beautified with love; For we also shall surely live.

In his days the sun went backward; And he added life to the king.

No man was created upon the earth such as was Enoch; For he was taken up from the earth.

Shem and Seth were glorified among men; And above every living thing in the creation is Adam.

In his days the cistern of waters was diminished, The brazen vessel in compass as the sea.

As an olive tree budding forth fruits, And as a cypress growing high among the clouds.

And now bless you⌃ the God of all, Which everywhere does great things, Which exalts our days from the womb, And deals with us according to his mercy.

And did deliver me, according to the abundance of your mercy, and greatness of your name, From the gnashings of teeth ready to devour, Out of the hand of such as sought my life, Out of the manifold afflictions which I had;

The slander of an unrighteous tongue to the king. My soul drew near even to death, And my life was near to the grave beneath.

I set my soul aright to her, And in pureness I found her. I got me a heart joined with her from the beginning: Therefore shall I not be forsaken.

and pray for the life of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and for the life of Baltasar his son, that their days may be as the days of heaven above the earth:

For you sit as king forever, and we perish evermore.

Hear, O Israel, the commandments of life: give ear to understand wisdom.

For if you had walked in the way of God, you should have dwelled in peace forever.

Learn where is wisdom, where is strength, where is understanding; that you may know also where is length of days, and life, where is the light of the eyes, and peace.

they are vanished and gone down to the grave, and others are come up in their steads.

Younger men have seen the light, and lived upon the earth: but the way of knowledge have they not known,

Afterward did she appear upon earth, and was conversant with men.

This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law that endures for ever: all those who hold it fast are appointed to life; but such as leave it shall die.

And he said, Because I may not do honor to idols made with hands, but to the living God, who has created the heaven and the earth, and has sovereignty over all flesh.

Then said Daniel, I will worship the Lord my God: for he is a living God.

And they said to them, Thus far. Come forth, and do according to the word of the king, and you⌃ shall live.

And one said to another, If we all do as our kindred have done, and fight not against the Gentiles for our lives and our ordinances, they will now quickly destroy us from off the earth.

And they took counsel on that day, saying, whoever shall come against us to battle on the Sabbath day, let us fight against him, and we shall in no wise all die, as our kindred died in the secret places.

And now, my children, be you⌃ zealous for the law, and give your lives for the covenant of your fathers.

but we fight for our lives and our laws.

and he gave himself to deliver his people, and to get him an everlasting name;

And the rest of the acts of Judas, and his wars, and the valiant deeds which he did, and his greatness, they are not written; for they were exceeding many.

And Jonathan said to his company, Let us stand up now and fight for our lives, for it is not with us today, as yesterday and the day before.

And those who followed upon them saw that they were ready to fight for their lives, and turned back again.

And now be it far from me, that I should spare my own life in any time of affliction; for I am not better than my kindred.

This is the sepulchre which he made at Modin, and it is there to this day.

But quickly certain of Heliodorus’s familiar friends implored Onias to call upon the Most High, and grant life to him who lay quite at the last gasp.

But as the high priest was making the atoning sacrifice, the same young men appeared again to Heliodorus, arrayed in the same garments; and they stood and said, Give Onias the high priest great thanks, for for his sake the Lord has granted you life;

coming forward as men ought to come that are resolute to repel such things as not even for the natural love of life is it lawful to taste.

and so they, by reason of my dissimulation, and for the sake of this brief and momentary life, should be led astray because of me, and thus I get to myself a pollution and a stain of my old age.

Wherefore, by manfully parting with my life now, I will show myself worthy of my old age,

So this man also died after this manner, leaving his death for an ensample of nobleness and a memorial of virtue, not only to the young but also to the great body of his nation.

And when he was at the last gasp, he said, You, miscreant, do release us out of this present life, but the King of the world shall raise up us, who have died for his laws, to an eternal renewal of life.

I know not how you⌃ came into my womb, neither was it I that bestowed on you your spirit and your life, and it was not I that brought into order the first elements of each one of you.

Therefore the Creator of the world, who fashioned the generation of man and devised the generation of all things, in mercy gives back to you again both your spirit and your life, as you⌃ now contemn your own selves for his laws’ sake.

I beseech you, my child, to lift your eyes to the heaven and the earth, and to see all things that are therein, and thus to recognize that God made them not of things that were, and that the race of men in this wise comes into being.

(And if he did it looking to an honorable memorial of gratitude laid up for those who die in godliness, holy and godly was the thought.) Wherefore he made the atoning sacrifice for those who had died, that they might be released from their sin.

he urged him to marry and beget children; he married, settled quietly, took part in common life.

when as his blood was now well near spent, he drew forth his bowels through the wound, and taking them in both his hands he shook them at the crowds; and calling upon him who is Lord of the life and the spirit to restore him these again, he thus died.

And Joakim his son reigned in his stead: for when he was made king he was eighteen years old;

Women have borne the king and all the people that bear rule by sea and land.

But truth remains, and is strong forever; she lives and conquers forevermore.

that drink offerings may be made to the Most High God for the king and for his children, and that they may pray for their lives.

And I will praise the forever all the days of my life: for all the army of heaven does sing your praise, and your is the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Had it not been for familiar friendship, and the claims of your office, your life should have gone for theirs.

And Eleazar, an illustrious priest of the country, who had attained to length of days, and whose life had been adorned with virtue, caused the presbyters who were about him to cease to cry out to the holy God, and prayed thus:

If our life has during our exile been stained with iniquity, deliver us from the hand of the enemy, and destroy us, O Lord, by the death which you prefer.

You, who are All-powerful and Almighty, O Eternal One, behold! have mercy upon us who are being withdrawn from life, like traitors, by the unreasoning insolence of lawless men.

Take heaven and earth to witness, take them to witness; for I have given up the evil, and created the good: for I live, says the Lord.

And those that be dead will I raise up again from their places, and bring them out from their tombs: for I have known my name in them.

Flee the shadow of this world, receive the joyfulness of your glory: I call to witness my savior openly.

and it gave you Adam, a body without a soul? yet it was the workmanship of your hands, and you did breathe into him the breath of life, and he was made living before you.

And you led him into paradise, which your right hand did plant, before ever the earth came forward.

Nevertheless now have I asked you but only of the fire and wind, and of the day, things wherethrough you have passed, and without which you can not be, and yet have you given me no answer of them.

And when I heard these things I fell upon my face, and said to him, It were better that we were not here at all, than that we should come here and live in the midst of ungodliness, and suffer, and not know wherefore.

and we pass away out of the world as grasshoppers, and our life is as a vapor, neither are we worthy to obtain mercy.

Then he answered me, and said, if you be alive you shall see, and if you live long, you shall marvel; for the world hastens fast to pass away.

So he answered me, and said, Go your way to a woman with child, and ask of her when she has fulfilled her nine months, if her womb may keep the birth any longer within her.

He answered me, and said, As for the tokens whereof you asked me, I may tell you of them in part: but as touching your life, I am not sent to show you; for I do not know it.

But if the Most High grant you to live, you shall see that which is after the third kingdom to be troubled; and the sun shall suddenly shine forth in the night, and the moon in the day:

And he said to me, You can not. And I said, Wherefore, Lord, or whereunto was I born? or why was not my mother’s womb then my grave, that I might not have seen the travail of Jacob, and the wearisome toil of the stock of Israel?

And I said, How have you said to your servant, that you will surely make alive at once the creature that you have created? If therefore they shall be alive at once, and the creature shall sustain them: even so it might now also support them to be present at once.

And she also shall answer you, They that be born in the strength of youth are of one fashion, and those who are born in the time of age, when the womb fails, are otherwise.

The beginning of a man is his hand, and the end of a man is his heel; between the heel and the hand seek you nothing else, Esdras.

and the children of a year old shall speak with their voices, the women with child shall bring forth untimely children at three or four months, and they shall live, and dance.

For immediately there came forth great and innumerable fruit, and manifold pleasures for the taste, and flowers of inimitable color, and odors of most exquisite smell: and this was done the third day.

Upon the fifth day you said to the seventh part, where the water was gathered together, that it should bring forth living creatures, fowls and fishes: and so it came to pass,

that the dumb water and without life brought forth living things as it was bidden, that the peoples might therefore praise your wondrous works.

Then did you preserve two living creatures, the one you calledst Behemoth, and the other you calledst Leviathan:

whoso then should desire to go into the sea to look upon it, or to rule it, if he went not through the narrow, how could he come into the broad?

Another thing also: There is a city built and set in a plain country, and full of all good things;

and there is one only path between them both, even between the fire and the water, so small that there could but one man go there at once.

If this city now be given to a man for an inheritance, if the heir pass not the danger before him, how shall he receive his inheritance?

For the entrances of the greater world are wide and sure, and bring forth fruit of immortality.