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I will not die, but live

The writer states the same idea both negatively and positively to emphasize that he will certainly live. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-doublet)

Yahweh has punished me

"Yahweh has disciplined me"

he has not handed me over to death

The writer speaks of death as if it were a person under whose power Yahweh could place the writer. AT: "he has not allowed me to die" or "he has not allowed my enemies to kill me" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom)