Wisdom 1:12-14

Common English Bible

¹² Don’t seek death through the error of your ways. Don’t invite destruction on yourself by what you do. ¹³ God didn’t make death. God takes no delight in the ruin of anything that lives. ¹⁴ God created everything so that it might exist. The creative forces at work in the cosmos are life-giving. There is no destructive poison in them. The underworld^[a] doesn’t rule on earth.