1734 verses about Life

Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness. WAW

This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.

Your statutes have been my songs, in the house where I live.

Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.

Preserve my life according to your loving kindness, so I will obey the statutes of your mouth. LAMED

Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me.

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

My soul is continually in my hand, yet I won’t forget your law.

Uphold me according to your word, that I may live. Let me not be ashamed of my hope.

Your testimonies are wonderful, therefore my soul keeps them.

Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live. KUF

Consider how I love your precepts. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your loving kindness.

Let my soul live, that I may praise you. Let your ordinances help me.

Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forward, and forever more.

As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so Yahweh surrounds his people from this time forward and forever more.

May Yahweh bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

“This is my resting place forever. Here I will live, for I have desired it.

like the dew of Hermon, that comes down on the hills of Zion: for there Yahweh gives the blessing, even life forever more.

You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.

Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.

If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.

I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”

For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.

Revive me, Yahweh, for your name’s sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.

Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

While I live, I will praise Yahweh. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.

He has also established them forever and ever. He has made a decree which will not pass away.

Let everything that has breath praise Yah! Praise Yah!

but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.

None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:

For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.

for length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to you.

It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones.

Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding.

For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.

She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.

Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.

Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

so they will be life to your soul, and grace for your neck.

He taught me, and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.

Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor, when you embrace her.

Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.

I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths.

Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.

For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.

For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.

With me are riches, honor, enduring wealth, and prosperity.

I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice;

For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh.

Wisdom has built her house. She has carved out her seven pillars.

Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”

For by me your days will be multiplied. The years of your life will be increased.

The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

The labor of the righteous leads to life. The increase of the wicked leads to sin.

He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.

The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

The fear of Yahweh prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

The righteous will never be removed, but the wicked will not dwell in the land.

The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.

The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.

He who is truly righteous gets life. He who pursues evil gets death.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

In the way of righteousness is life; in its path there is no death.

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from the snares of death.

Good understanding wins favor; but the way of the unfaithful is hard.

The fear of Yahweh is a fountain of life, turning people from the snares of death.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.

Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh— how much more then the hearts of the children of men!

The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise.

In the light of the king’s face is life. His favor is like a cloud of the spring rain.

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. He who keeps his way preserves his soul.

Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, but the punishment of fools is their folly.

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.

A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?

A man’s gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.