³ Honesty guides good people;
    dishonesty destroys treacherous people.

⁶ Godliness guards the path of the blameless,
    but the evil are misled by sin.

¹⁸ The blameless will be rescued from harm,
    but the crooked will be suddenly destroyed.

³ People ruin their lives by their own foolishness
    and then are angry at the Lord.

¹ Declare me innocent, O Lord,
    for I have acted with integrity;
    I have trusted in the Lord without wavering.

²¹ May integrity and honesty protect me,
    for I put my hope in you.

⁵ The godly are directed by honesty;
    the wicked fall beneath their load of sin.

²⁸ But rebels and sinners will be completely destroyed,
    and those who desert the Lord will be consumed.