²⁷ The fear of Jehovah `is' a fountain of life, To turn aside from snares of death.

¹⁴ The law of the wise `is' a fountain of life, To turn aside from snares of death.

⁵ Cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been snares of death.

¹⁰ For wisdom cometh into thy heart, And knowledge to thy soul is pleasant,

¹¹ Thoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep thee,

¹² To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things,

¹³ Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness,

¹⁴ Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked,

¹⁵ Whose paths `are' crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways.

¹⁶ To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,

¹⁷ Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten.

¹⁸ For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths.

⁵ Thorns -- snares `are' in the way of the perverse, Whoso is keeping his soul is far from them.

²⁶ And I am finding more bitter than death, the woman whose heart `is' nets and snares, her hands `are' bands; the good before God escapeth from her, but the sinner is captured by her.

⁶ And hath been the stedfastness of thy times, The strength of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge, Fear of Jehovah -- it `is' His treasure.

⁶ and He said to me, `It hath been done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End; I, to him who is thirsting, will give of the fountain of the water of the life freely;