Psalm 34:12 {33:13}
Good News Translation
Would you like to enjoy life? Do you want long life and happiness?

New Revised Standard Version
Which of you desires life, and covets many days to enjoy good?

Contemporary English Version
Do you want to live and enjoy a long life?

New American Bible
Who is the man who delights in life, who loves to see the good days?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who is the man that desireth life: who liveth to see good days?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who is the man that desireth life: who liveth to see good days?

What

Psalm 21:4 He asked life of thee: and thou hast given him length of days for ever and ever.

Psalm 91:16 I will fill him with length of days; and I will shew him my salvation.

Deuteronomy 6:2 That thou mayst fear the Lord thy God, and keep all his commandments and precepts, which I command thee, and thy sons, and thy grandsons, all the days of thy life, that thy days may be prolonged.

Deuteronomy 30:20 And that thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and obey his voice, and adhere to him (for he is thy life, and the length of thy days,) that thou mayst dwell in the land, for which the Lord swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that he would give it them.

1 Peter 3:10,11 For he that will love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile. . . .

that he

Psalm 4:6 The light of thy countenance, O Lord, is signed upon us: thou hast given gladness in my heart.

Job 7:7 Remember that my life is but wind, and my eye shall not return to see good things.

Ecclesiastes 2:3 I thought in my heart, to withdraw my flesh from wine, that I might turn my mind to wisdom, and might avoid folly, till I might see what was profitable for the children of men: and what they ought to do under the sun, all the days of their life.

Ecclesiastes 12:13 Let us all hear together the conclusion of the discourse. Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is all man:

Context
Taste and See that the LORD is Good
11Come, children, hearken to me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord. 12Who is the man that desireth life: who liveth to see good days?13Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.…
Cross References
1 Peter 3:10
For he that will love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile.

Ecclesiastes 3:13
For every man that eateth and drinketh, and seeth good of his labour, this is the gift of God.

Isaiah 65:20
There shall no more be an infant of days there, nor an old man that shall not fill up his days: for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.

Psalm 34:11
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