Life in the OT is especially characteristic of Yahweh. He “lives” (Ps 18:46) and never dies (Ps 121:4). He is the God of life (Pss 36:9; 42:8), the “Living God” (Josh 3:10; Pss 42:3; 84:3; Hos 2:1 [1:10]; 2 Kgs 19:4, 16 = Isa 37:4, 17; Deut 5:23 [26]; 1 Sam 17:26, 36; Jer 10:10; 23:36), and the power of life flows from him (Ps 145:16; 36:8–10; 80:18; 1 Sam 2:6; Deut 32:39; cf. Jer 2:13; 17:13). Those who are far from him will perish (Ps 73:27). He provides the “Way (or Path) of Life”: Ps 16:11; Prov 5:6; 6:23; 15:24; Jer 21:8; cf. Prov 2:19; 10:17. Thus all of life is a gift and a trust from Yahweh . . .

MARVIN TATE, PSALMS 51-100, VOLUME 20 (WORD BIBLICAL COMMENTARY), 373.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people.

John 1:1-4