Wis 1:12-16

12Do not court death^* by your erring way of life,

nor draw to yourselves destruction by the works of your hands.

13Because God did not make death,^l

nor does he rejoice in the destruction of the living.

14For he fashioned all things that they might have being,

and the creatures of the world are wholesome;

There is not a destructive drug among them

nor any domain of Hades^* on earth,

15For righteousness is undying.^{* m}

16It was the wicked who with hands and words invited death,

considered it a friend, and pined for it,

and made a covenant with it,

Because they deserve to be allied with it.ⁿ