<p class="lamhebrew">&#1489; (<i>Beti>)p> <p class="poetry">How can a young person<n id="1" /> maintain a pure life?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">By guarding it according to your instructions!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">and I saw among the naive &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">I discerned among the youths<n id="1" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">a young man<n id="2" /> who lacked wisdom.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Folly is bound up<n id="1" /> in the heart of a child,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">but the rod of discipline<n id="3" /> will drive it far from him.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Woe to you, O land, when your king is childish,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and your princes feast in the morning!p>

<t /><p class="poetry">When Israel was a young man, I loved him like a son,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and I summoned my son<n id="2" /> out of Egypt.p>

<p class="bodytext">If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets<n id="1" /> her in the city and has sexual relations with<n id="2" /> her,

<p class="bodytext">Suppose a man comes across a virgin who is not engaged and overpowers and rapes<n id="1" /> her and they are discovered.

<t /><p class="bodytext">There was a young man from Bethlehem<n id="1" /> in Judah. He was a Levite who had been temporarily residing among the tribe of Judah.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Now Samuel was ministering before the <sc>Lordsc>. The boy was dressed in a linen ephod.

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

<p class="poetry">I was once young, now I am old.p> <p class="poetry">I have never seen a godly man abandoned,p> <p class="poetry">or his children<n id="1" /> forced to search for food.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Even a young man<n id="1" /> is known<n id="2" /> by his actions,p> <p class="poetry">whether his activity is pure and whether it is right.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">I answered, &#8220;Oh, Lord <sc>Godsc>,<n id="1" /> I really<n id="2" /> do not know how to speak well enough for that,<n id="3" /> for I am too young.&#8221;<n id="4" />

Now a young man, a Hebrew, a servant<n id="1" /> of the captain of the guards,<n id="2" /> was with us there. We told him our dreams,<n id="3" /> and he interpreted the meaning of each of our respective dreams for us.<n id="4" />

opened it,<n id="1" /> and saw the child<n id="2" /> &#8211; a boy,<n id="3" /> crying!<n id="4" /> &#8211; and she felt compassion<n id="5" /> for him and said, &#8220;This is one of the Hebrews&#8217; children.&#8221;p>

He captured a young man from Succoth<n id="1" /> and interrogated him. The young man wrote down for him the names of Succoth&#8217;s officials and city leaders &#8211; seventy-seven men in all.<n id="2" />

He ordered Jether his firstborn son, &#8220;Come on!<n id="1" /> Kill them!&#8221; But Jether was too afraid to draw his sword,<n id="2" /> because he was still young.

Once she had weaned him, she took him up with her, along with three bulls, an ephah<n id="1" /> of flour, and a container<n id="2" /> of wine. She brought him to the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s house at Shiloh, even though he was young.<n id="3" />

Now the priests would always treat the people in the following way:<n id="1" /> Whenever anyone was making a sacrifice, while the meat was boiling, the priest&#8217;s attendant would come with a three-pronged fork<n id="2" /> in his hand.

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