<p class="poetry">The highway<n id="1" /> of the upright is to turn<n id="2" /> away from evil;p> <p class="poetry">the one who guards<n id="3" /> his way safeguards his life.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">The mouth of a fool is his ruin,p> <p class="poetry">and his lips are a snare for his life.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">The one who acquires wisdom<n id="1" /> loves himself;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the one who preserves understanding will prosper.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The one who obeys commandments guards<n id="1" /> his life;p> <p class="poetry">the one who despises his ways<n id="2" /> will die.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The king&#8217;s terrifying anger<n id="1" /> is like the roar of a lion;p> <p class="poetry">whoever provokes him<n id="2" /> sins against himself.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Thorns and snares<n id="1" /> are in the path of the perverse,p> <p class="poetry">but the one who guards himself keeps far from them.p>

<p class="poetry">Bloodthirsty people<n id="1" /> hate someone with integrity;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">as for the upright, they seek his life.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">They feed on the sin offerings of my people;p> <p class="poetry">their appetites long for their iniquity!p>

Then he became very attached<n id="1" /> to Dinah, Jacob&#8217;s daughter. He fell in love with the young woman and spoke romantically to her.<n id="2" />

If a ransom is set for him,<n id="1" /> then he must pay the redemption for his life according to whatever amount was set for him.

<p class="poetry">The men of Zebulun were not concerned about their lives;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Naphtali charged on to the battlefields.<n id="2" />p>

my father fought for you; he risked his life<n id="1" /> and delivered you from Midian&#8217;s power.<n id="2" />

They threw away the foreign gods they owned<n id="1" /> and worshiped<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc>. Finally the <sc>Lordsc> grew tired of seeing Israel suffer so much.<n id="3" />p>

She nagged him<n id="1" /> every day and pressured him until he was sick to death of it.<n id="2" />

Jonathan once again took an oath with David, because he loved him. In fact Jonathan loved him as much as he did his own life.<n id="1" />

David realized<n id="1" /> that Saul had come out to seek his life; at that time David was in Horesh in the desert of Ziph.p>

<p class="bodytext">So the <sc>Lordsc> said to Satan, &#8220;All right,<n id="1" /> he is<n id="2" /> in your power;<n id="3" /> only preserve<n id="4" /> his life.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">You who tear yourself<n id="1" /> to pieces in your anger,p> <p class="poetry">will the earth be abandoned<n id="2" /> for your sake?p> <p class="poetry">Or will a rock be moved from its place?<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">For what hope does the godless have when he is cut off,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">when God takes away his life?<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Yes,<n id="1" /> the wicked man<n id="2" /> boasts because he gets what he wants;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">the one who robs others<n id="4" /> curses<n id="5" /> and<n id="6" /> rejects the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="7" />p>