<p class="poetry">The reward<n id="1" /> which the righteous receive<n id="2" /> is life;p> <p class="poetry">the recompense<n id="3" /> which the wicked receive<n id="4" /> is judgment.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">True<n id="1" /> righteousness leads to<n id="2" /> life,p> <p class="poetry">but the one who pursues evil pursues it<n id="3" /> to his own death.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">The one who heeds instruction<n id="1" /> is on the way to<n id="2" /> life,p> <p class="poetry">but the one who rejects<n id="3" /> rebuke goes astray.p>

<p class="poetry">Fearing the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> leads<n id="2" /> to life,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and one who does so will live<n id="4" /> satisfied; he will not be afflicted<n id="5" /> by calamity.p>

<p class="poetry">Those remaining in Zion,<n id="1" /> those left in Jerusalem,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">will be called &#8220;holy,&#8221;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">all in Jerusalem who are destined to live.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">But Ittai replied to the king, &#8220;As surely as the <sc>Lordsc> lives and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king is, whether dead or alive,<n id="1" /> there I<n id="2" /> will be as well!&#8221;