So are the ways of everyone who is greedy of gain. It takes away the life of the owners of it.

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?

I also will laugh at your calamity. I will mock when your fear comes,

none who go to her return again, nor do they attain to the paths of life),

For length of days, and years of life, and peace, they will add to thee.

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold upon her. And happy is everyone who retains her.

so they shall be life to thy soul, and grace to thy neck.

And he taught me, and said to me, Let thy heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

Do not forsake her, and she will preserve thee. Love her, and she will keep thee.

Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings, and the years of thy life shall be many.

Take firm hold of instruction. Do not let her go. Keep her, for she is thy life.

For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.

Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.

so that she does not find the level path of life. Her ways are unstable, [and] she does not know.

a loving hind and a pleasant doe. Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times, and be thou ravished always with her love.

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

For the price of a harlot is as much as a piece of bread, but the adulteress hunts for the precious life.

Keep my commandments and live, and my law as the apple of thine eye.

Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning. Let us solace ourselves with love.

till an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hastens to the snare. And he does not know that it is for his life.

I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently shall find me.

that I may cause those who love me to inherit substance, and that I may fill their treasuries.

For he who finds me finds life, and shall obtain favor of LORD.

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.

Forsake ye simpleness, and live, and walk in the way of understanding.

Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate thee. Reprove a wise man, and he will love thee.

For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.

The mouth of a righteous man is a fountain of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all transgressions.

The labor of a righteous man produces life. The fruit of a wicked man [is] to sin.

He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof errs.

He who is steadfast in righteousness [comes] to life, and he who pursues evil [comes] to his own death.

He who trusts in his riches shall fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.

The fruit of a righteous man is a tree of life, and he who is wise wins souls.

A righteous man regards the life of his beast, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

Life is in the way of righteousness, and in the pathway thereof there is no death.

He who guards his mouth keeps his life. He who opens wide his lips shall have destruction.

The ransom of a man's life is his riches, but the poor hears no threatening.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.

The law of a wise man is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

The fear of LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

A tranquil heart is the life of the flesh, but envy is the rottenness of the bones.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it is a breaking of the spirit.

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a fatted ox and hatred with it.

To the wise man the way of life [is] upward, that he may depart from Sheol beneath.

He who is greedy of gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes shall live.

The ear that hearkens to the reproof of life shall abide among the wise.

Righteous lips are the delight of kings, and they love him who speaks right.

In the light of the king's countenance is life, and his favor is as a cloud of the latter rain.

Understanding is a well-spring of life to him who has it, but the correction of fools is folly.

He who covers a transgression seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates chief friends.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it shall eat the fruit of it.

The fear of LORD is life to a man, and he shall abide satisfied. He shall not be visited with evil.

The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger sins [against] his own life.

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty. Open thine eyes, [and] thou shall be satisfied with bread.

He who follows after righteousness and kindness finds life, righteousness, and honor.

The reward of humility [and] the fear of LORD [is] riches and honor and life.

For LORD will plead their cause, and despoil of life those who despoil them.

Better is open rebuke than love that is hidden.

If a wise man has a controversy with a foolish man, whether he be angry or laugh, there will be no rest.

She does him good and not evil all the days of her life.