New Revised Standard Version
The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, so that one may avoid the snares of death.

Contemporary English Version
and a life-giving fountain that keeps you safe from deadly traps.

New American Bible
The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, turning one from the snares of death.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to decline from the ruin of death.

The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to decline from the ruin of death.

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Proverbs 13:14 The law of the wise is a fountain of life, that he may decline from the ruin of death.

Isaiah 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray, every one hath turned aside into his own way: and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Revelation 21:6 And he said to me: It is done. I am Alpha and Omega: the Beginning and the End. To him that thirsteth, I will give of the fountain of the water of life, freely.

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Proverbs 2:10-18 Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee, . . .

Proverbs 22:5 Arms and swords are in the way of the perverse: but he that keepeth his own soul, departeth far from them.

Psalm 18:5 The sorrows of hell encompassed me: and the snares of death prevented me.

Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I have found a woman more bitter than death, who is the hunter's snare, and her heart is a net, and her hands are bands. He that pleaseth God shall escape from her: but he that is a sinner, shall be caught by her.