Proverbs 12:28

life: i.e. life eternal. See note on Leviticus 18:5.

no death. immortality. Or take nethebah (as in Judges 5:6; Isaiah 59:8) as denoting, with derek, no devious winding by-path. In this case we must read 'el, "to", instead of 'al, "no". This avoids the necessity of the italics.