24 The path of life leads upward for the prudent
    to keep them from going down to the realm of the dead.

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24 
The [chosen] path of life leads upward for the wise,
That he may keep away from Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) below.(A)

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24 The path of life leads upward for the wise;
    they leave the grave[a] behind.

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Footnotes

  1. 15:24 Hebrew Sheol.

24 Life ascends to the heights for the thoughtful—
    it’s a clean about-face from descent into hell.

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24 The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

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