³ The uprightness of the just shall guide them: but the frowardness of the transgressors shall destroy them.

⁵ The righteousness of the upright shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall in his own wickedness.

⁶ The righteousness of the just shall deliver them: but the transgressors shall be taken in their own wickedness.

⁷ When a wicked man dieth, his hope perisheth, and the hope of the unjust shall perish.

⁸ The righteous escapeth out of trouble, and the wicked shall come in his ^[a]stead.

¹⁰ In the prosperity of the righteous the city ^[a]rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is joy.

¹¹ By the ^[b]blessing of the righteous the city is exalted: but it is subverted by the mouth of the wicked.

¹⁸ The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but he that soweth righteousness, shall receive a sure reward.

¹⁹ As righteousness leadeth to life: so he that followeth evil, seeketh his own death.

²³ The desire of the righteous is only good: but the hope of the wicked ^[a]is indignation.

³⁰ The fruit of the righteous is as a tree of life, and he that ^[a]winneth souls is wise.

³¹ Behold, the righteous shall be ^[b]recompensed in the earth: how much more the wicked and the sinner?