ב (Bet) How can a young person maintain a pure life? By guarding it according to your instructions!

and I saw among the naive – I discerned among the youths – a young man who lacked wisdom.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.

Woe to you, O land, when your king is childish, and your princes feast in the morning!

When Israel was a young man, I loved him like a son, and I summoned my son out of Egypt.

If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets her in the city and has sexual relations with her,

Suppose a man comes across a virgin who is not engaged and overpowers and rapes her and they are discovered.

There was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah. He was a Levite who had been temporarily residing among the tribe of Judah.

Now Samuel was ministering before the Lord. The boy was dressed in a linen ephod.

along with Zadok, a young warrior, and twenty-two leaders from his family.

I was once young, now I am old. I have never seen a godly man abandoned, or his children forced to search for food.

Even a young man is known by his actions, whether his activity is pure and whether it is right.

I answered, “Oh, Lord God, I really do not know how to speak well enough for that, for I am too young.”

Now a young man, a Hebrew, a servant of the captain of the guards, was with us there. We told him our dreams, and he interpreted the meaning of each of our respective dreams for us.

opened it, and saw the child – a boy, crying! – and she felt compassion for him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”

He captured a young man from Succoth and interrogated him. The young man wrote down for him the names of Succoth’s officials and city leaders – seventy-seven men in all.

He ordered Jether his firstborn son, “Come on! Kill them!” But Jether was too afraid to draw his sword, because he was still young.

Once she had weaned him, she took him up with her, along with three bulls, an ephah of flour, and a container of wine. She brought him to the Lord’s house at Shiloh, even though he was young.

Now the priests would always treat the people in the following way: Whenever anyone was making a sacrifice, while the meat was boiling, the priest’s attendant would come with a three-pronged fork in his hand.

When the Philistine looked carefully at David, he despised him, for he was only a ruddy and handsome boy.