12. Do not court death by your erring way of life,nor draw to yourselves destruction by the works of your hands.
13. Because God did not make death,nor does he rejoice in the destruction of the living.
14. For he fashioned all things that they might have being,and the creatures of the world are wholesome;There is not a destructive drug among themnor any domain of Hades on earth,
15. For righteousness is undying.
16. It was the wicked who with hands and words invited death,considered it a friend, and pined for it,and made a covenant with it,Because they deserve to be allied with it.