² Good people obtain favor from the Lord,^(A)
    but he condemns those who devise wicked schemes.^(B)

³ No one can be established through wickedness,
    but the righteous cannot be uprooted.^(C)

⁵ The plans of the righteous are just,
    but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.

⁷ The wicked are overthrown and are no more,^(A)
    but the house of the righteous stands firm.^(B)

¹⁰ The righteous care for the needs of their animals,^(A)
    but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel.

¹² The wicked desire the stronghold of evildoers,
    but the root of the righteous endures.

¹³ Evildoers are trapped by their sinful talk,^(A)
    and so the innocent escape trouble.^(B)

²¹ No harm overtakes the righteous,^(A)
    but the wicked have their fill of trouble.

²⁶ The righteous choose their friends carefully,
    but the way of the wicked leads them astray.^(A)

²⁸ In the way of righteousness there is life;^(A)
    along that path is immortality.