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Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.

When the wicked man dies, his hope perishes, and the hope of his strength vanishes.

Genuine righteousness leads to life, but the pursuit of evil brings death.

There is life in the path of righteousness, but another path leads to death.

The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning one from the snares of death.

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.

The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death.

The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.

The wrath of a king is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.

Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

Making a fortune by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit.

Rescue those being led away to death, and restrain those stumbling toward the slaughter.

Like a madman shooting firebrands and deadly arrows,

For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other—they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.

A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.

And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.

As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

As dead flies bring a stench to the perfumer’s oil, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all.

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted; and the train of His robe filled the temple.

In the year that King Ahaz died, this burden was received:

He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.

For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”

Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be trampled by it.

For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.

He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.

Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.

If they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘Those destined for death, to death; those destined for the sword, to the sword; those destined for famine, to famine; and those destined for captivity, to captivity.’

Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

But You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.

Furthermore, you are to tell this people that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.

Then the priests and prophets said to the officials and all the people, “This man is worthy of death, for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears!”

Then the officials and all the people told the priests and prophets, “This man is not worthy of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God!”

He will come and strike down the land of Egypt, bringing death to those destined for death, captivity to those destined for captivity, and the sword to those destined for the sword.

Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day.

And the king of Babylon provided Jehoiachin a daily portion for the rest of his life, until the day of his death.

See, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am churning within; my heart is pounding within me, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is death.

Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Lord GOD. Wouldn’t I prefer that he turn from his ways and live?

For I take no pleasure in anyone’s death, declares the Lord GOD. So repent and live!

You will die the death of the uncircumcised at the hands of foreigners. For I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.”

This happened so that no other trees by the waters would become great in height and set their tops among the clouds, and no other well-watered trees would reach them in height. For they have all been consigned to death, to the depths of the earth, among the mortals who descend to the Pit.’

Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.