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