11. Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you to revere and worshipfully fear the Lord.
12. What man is he who desires life and longs for many days, that he may see good?
13. Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.
14. Depart from evil and do good; seek, inquire for, and crave peace and pursue (go after) it!
15. The eyes of the Lord are toward the [uncompromisingly] righteous and His ears are open to their cry.
16. The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. [I Pet. 3:10-12.]
17. When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears, and delivers them out of all their distress and troubles.
18. The Lord is close to those who are of a broken heart and saves such as are crushed with sorrow for sin and are humbly and thoroughly penitent.
19. Many evils confront the [consistently] righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.