For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.

For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. {long...: Heb. years of life}

With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation. {long...: Heb. length of days}

It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green. {accomplished: or, cut off}

Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

He asked life of thee, {and} thou gavest {it} him, {even} length of days for ever and ever.

Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

But God said unto him, {Thou} fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? {thy...: Gr. do they require thy soul}

But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee. {bloody...: Heb. men of bloods and deceit} {shall...: Heb. shall not half their days}

Length of days {is} in her right hand; {and} in her left hand riches and honour.

Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time? {before...: Heb. not in thy time?}

{As} the partridge sitteth {on eggs}, and hatcheth {them} not; {so} he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool. {sitteth...: or, gathereth young which she hath not brought forth}

For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.

Thou shalt come to {thy} grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season. {cometh in: Heb. ascendeth}

Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time? {before...: Heb. not in thy time?}

The fear of the LORD {tendeth} to life: and {he that hath it} shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.

For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. {long...: Heb. years of life}

But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee. {bloody...: Heb. men of bloods and deceit} {shall...: Heb. shall not half their days}

And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. {both...: Heb. from man unto beast}

And that ye may prolong {your} days in the land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, {to} the right hand, or {to} the left: to the end that he may prolong {his} days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.