<p class="poetry">I will serve<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>p> <p class="poetry">in the land<n id="2" /> of the living.p>

He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped.

<p class="poetry">Mankind does not know its place;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">it cannot be found in the land of the living.p>

<p class="poetry">to turn back his life from the place of corruption,p> <p class="poetry">that he may be enlightened with the light of life.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Look! I have set before you today life and prosperity on the one hand, and death and disaster on the other.

<p class="poetry">I cry out to you, O <sc>Lordsc>;p> <p class="poetry">I say, &#8220;You are my shelter,p> <p class="poetry">my security<n id="1" /> in the land of the living.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">So I considered<n id="1" /> those who are dead and gone<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">more fortunate than those who are still alive.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">So what advantage does a wise man have over a fool?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">And what advantage<n id="2" /> does a pauper gain by knowing how to survive?<n id="3" />p>

When he drove<n id="1" /> the man out, he placed on the eastern side<n id="2" /> of the orchard in Eden angelic sentries<n id="3" /> who used the flame of a whirling sword<n id="4" /> to guard the way to the tree of life.p>

So he is to decontaminate the house with the blood of the bird, the fresh water, the live bird, the piece of cedar wood, the twigs of hyssop, and the scrap of crimson fabric,

<p class="poetry">when you deliver<n id="1" /> my life from death.p> <p class="poetry">You keep my feet from stumbling,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">so that I might serve<n id="3" /> God as I enjoy life.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">So I loathed<n id="1" /> life<n id="2" /> because whatp> <p class="poetry">happens<n id="3" /> on earth<n id="4" /> seems awful to me;p> <p class="poetry">for all the benefits of wisdom<n id="5" /> are futile &#8211; like chasing the wind.p>

<p class="poetry">I considered all the living who walk on earth,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">as well as the successor<n id="2" /> who would arise<n id="3" /> in his place.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">But whoever is among<n id="1" /> the living<n id="2" /> has hope;p> <p class="poetry">a live dog is better than a dead lion.p>

<p class="poetry">For the living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything;p> <p class="poetry">they have no further reward &#8211; and even the memory of them disappears.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;I thought,p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;I will no longer see the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> in the land of the living,p> <p class="poetry">I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;But<n id="1" /> tell the people of Jerusalem<n id="2" /> that the <sc>Lordsc> says, &#8216;I will give you a choice between two courses of action. One will result in life; the other will result in death.<n id="3" />

He<n id="1" /> returns what was taken in pledge, pays back what he has stolen, and follows the statutes that give life,<n id="2" /> committing no iniquity. He will certainly live &#8211; he will not die.

&#8220;My covenant with him was designed to bring life and peace. I gave its statutes to him to fill him with awe, and he indeed revered me and stood in awe before me.

The <sc>Lordsc> God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil,<n id="1" /> every tree that was pleasing to look at<n id="2" /> and good for food. (Now<n id="3" /> the tree of life<n id="4" /> and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil<n id="5" /> were in the middle of the orchard.)p>