So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; who taketh away the life of its owners.

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

None that go to her return again, neither do they take hold of the paths of life.

For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.

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

He taught me also, and said to me, Let thy heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

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

Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.

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

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

Lest thou shouldst ponder the path of life, her ways are movable, that thou canst not know them.

Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; 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 by means of a lewd woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

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

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

Till a dart striketh through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.

That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.

For whoever findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favor from the LORD.

But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

Reprove not a scorner, lest he shall hate thee: rebuke 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 well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

The labor of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.

He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.

As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

In the way of righteousness is life; and in the path of it there is no death.

He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

The ransom of a man's life is his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

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

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

A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.

A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness in it is a breach in the spirit.

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

The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.

The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.

Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.

In the light of a 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 that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.

He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit of it.

The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thy eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honor.

By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honor, and life.

Open rebuke is better than secret love.

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