12 Who is the man who delights in life,
loving a long life to enjoy what is good?(A)
13 Keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from deceitful speech.(B)
14 Turn away from evil and do what is good;(C)
seek peace and pursue it.(D)

15 The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
and His ears are open to their cry for help.(E)
16 The face of the Lord is set
against those who do what is evil,(F)
to erase[a] all memory of them from the earth.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 34:16 Or cut off

12 Whoever of you loves life(A)
    and desires to see many good days,
13 keep your tongue(B) from evil
    and your lips from telling lies.(C)
14 Turn from evil and do good;(D)
    seek peace(E) and pursue it.

15 The eyes of the Lord(F) are on the righteous,(G)
    and his ears are attentive(H) to their cry;
16 but the face of the Lord is against(I) those who do evil,(J)
    to blot out their name(K) from the earth.

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12 What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?

13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

15 The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

16 The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

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