I use the Amplified Bible - which is purported to be the most accurate Greek translation of the original Hebrew.
What I don't understand is why you now say that "focusing on reincarnation is irrelevant anyway".
Jesus warned us to "rightly divide the Word of Truth.
You said: "For who can know the ways of the LORD?"
Jesus said, "It has been given unto 'you' to know the mysteries and secrets of the kingdom". The "you" Jesus was speaking about were the people who would receive Him as Savior and Lord .. true Christians.
Oh my, it's worse than I thought.
Let me explain this to you: All of the Torah, and most of the rest of what Christians call "The Old Testament" was written in Hebrew. A small part of it, such as parts of the book of Daniel, was written in Aramaic, which was the common language at the time Jesus walked the earth. Without a doubt, that is the language that He used when preaching to the crowds.
The New Testament was NEVER written in Hebrew, it was written in Greek, a language that is most likely a language that Jesus knew very little of, if any. So, any New Testament in Hebrew was translated from the Greek, much later. This was done because Greek was the only language that the Word could be widely spread in, as Aramaic was only spoken in a small area of the world.
So, where was this chapter and verse, then? I was throwing that out to you, because I think you quoted an Old Testament verse, and attributed it to Jesus.
I did a careful word search, using both the KJV and the RSV, for every single verse that contained both the words "live" and "die", and I could not find it. (there were I think 72 verses that contained both)
searchable Bibles:
Revised Standard Version:
http://www.hti.umich.edu/r/rsv/
King James Version:
http://www.hti.umich.edu/k/kjv/
To conclude, I'm Jewish.