1The happiness of the godly. 4The unhappiness of the ungodly.
1BLESSED is the man that awalketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the 1scornful.
1Or, wicked. Pr. 1.22.
a Ge. 49.6. 2Ch. 22.3-5. Pr. 1.15; 4.14,15. Mi. 6.16. Ps. 6.8; 26.4,5; 119.115. Je. 15.17.
2But bhis delight is in the law of the LORD; and cin his law doth he meditate day and night.
b Job 23.12. Ps. 119.11,16,24,47, 103,127,143; 19.10. Je. 15.16. Ro. 7.22. 1Jn. 5.3. Ac. 26.22. c Jos. 1.8. Ps. 119.1,15,55,62, 81,97.
3And he shall dbe like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not 2wither; and ewhatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
2Heb. fade.
d Je. 17.8. Eze. 47.12. Is. 44.3-5. Ps. 52.8; 92.12. Nu. 24.6. e Ge. 30.2; 39.3,23. 2Ch. 31.21; 32.20. Ps. 128.2. Is. 3.10. Ro. 8.28.
4The ungodly are not so: fbut are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
f Mat. 3.12. Ps. 35.5; 15.4. Is. 17.13; 29.5. Ho. 13.3. Job 21.18.
5Therefore the ungodly gshall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
g Mat. 13.49; 25.41,46. Ps. 5.5; 24.3. Lu. 21.28,36. Re. 6.16,17; 22.15. Na. 1.6.
6For the LORD hknoweth the way of the righteous: but the iway of the ungodly shall perish.
h Job 23.10. Na. 1.7. Je. 23.10. Pr. 2.8. Jn. 10.14. Ps. 37.18. i Pr. 15.9; 14.12,21,32; 11.7. Mat. 25.46. Is. 3.11.