⁴ Riches provide no security in any day of wrath and judgment, but righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God) delivers from death.^(A)

¹⁹ He who is steadfast in righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God) attains to life, but he who pursues evil does it to his own death.

³⁰ The fruit of the [uncompromisingly] righteous is a tree of life, and he who is wise captures human lives [for God, as a fisher of men—he gathers and receives them for eternity].^(A)