The path of life is upward for the wise, To turn away from the grave below.
And see if an idolatrous way is in me, And lead me in the way everlasting.
You show me the path of life; In Your presence is joy to satisfaction; At Your right hand are pleasures forever.
For her house has sunk down to death, And her paths to the dead;
Beat him with a rod And deliver his being from the grave.
But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, That shines ever brighter unto the perfect day.
Her feet go down to death, Her steps lay hold of the grave.
For the command is a lamp, And the Torah a light, And reproofs of discipline a way of life,
Her house is the way to the grave, Going down to the rooms of death.
Do not reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you; Reprove a wise one, and he loves you.
“You shall also say to this people, ‘Thus said יהוה, “See, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.
“Because the gate is narrow and the way is hard pressed which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
יהושע said to him, “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
“For a fire was kindled in My wrath And burns to the bottom of She’ol, And consumes the earth and its increase, And sets on fire the foundations of mountains.
For our citizenship is in the heavens, from which we also eagerly wait for the Saviour, the Master יהושע Messiah,