A righteous man regards the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are only cruelty.

Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”

And to every beast of the earth and every bird of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth—everything that has the breath of life in it—I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.

before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

They will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.

So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

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