1734 verses about Life

As they were burying a man, behold, they saw a band of raiders; and they threw the man into Elisha’s tomb. As soon as the man touched Elisha’s bones, he revived, and stood up on his feet.

He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.

Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place.

Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.

Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zechariah his son reigned in his place.

He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.

Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in David’s city: and Jotham his son reigned in his place.

Menahem slept with his fathers, and Pekahiah his son reigned in his place.

He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.

Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city, and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.

Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to Yahweh, saying,

I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.”’”

Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.

Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life;

and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him from the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.

Adam, Seth, Enosh,

Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,

Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech,

Baal Hanan died, and Hadad reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Pai: and his wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.

the son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,

and said, “My God forbid me, that I should do this! Shall I drink the blood of these men who have put their lives in jeopardy?” For they risked their lives to bring it. Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things.

Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.

Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all! In your hand is power and might! It is in your hand to make great, and to give strength to all!

For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

that they may fear you, to walk in your ways, so long as they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.

Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city; and Abijah his son reigned in his place.

Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the forty-first year of his reign.

Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city, and Jehoram his son reigned in his place.

Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah, of Beersheba.

But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died. He was one hundred thirty years old when he died.

Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan, of Jerusalem.

Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel.

Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok.

So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before Yahweh his God.

Now the rest of his acts, and all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.

Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.

Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

that they may offer sacrifices of pleasant aroma to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.

Then Esther the queen answered, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request.

In those letters, the king granted the Jews who were in every city to gather themselves together, and to defend their life, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women, and to plunder their possessions,

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”

After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.

“Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’

because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?

or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

Who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’

but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;

In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.

You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.

I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

“Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?

While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.

He is green before the sun. His shoots go out along his garden.

His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.

Behold, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, others shall spring.

I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.

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

They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man’s years,

“‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

Haven’t you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?

You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.

“‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

Aren’t my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

Life shall be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it shall be as the morning.

in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

“Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?

Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;

“For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.

yet through the scent of water it will bud, and sprout boughs like a plant.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,

He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.

For when a few years have come, I shall go the way of no return.