Proverbs 15:24

15:24 The path of life is upward for the wise person,

to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

Proverbs 16:6

16:6 Through loyal love and truth iniquity is appeased;

through fearing the Lord one avoids evil.

Proverbs 16:17

16:17 The highway of the upright is to turn away from evil;

the one who guards his way safeguards his life.

Proverbs 16:2

16:2 All a person’s ways seem right in his own opinion,

but the Lord evaluates the motives.

Proverbs 22:6-7

22:6 Train a child in the way that he should go,

and when he is old he will not turn from it.

22:7 The rich rule over the poor,

and the borrower is servant to the lender.

Psalms 18:5

18:5 The ropes of Sheol tightened around me,

the snares of death trapped me.

Psalms 116:3

116:3 The ropes of death tightened around me,

the snares of Sheol confronted me.

I was confronted with trouble and sorrow.