^[a]1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked,
Nor standeth in the way of sinners,
Nor sitteth in the seat of scoffers:
² But his delight is in the law of Jehovah;
And on his law doth he meditate day and night.

³ And he shall be like a tree planted by the streams of water,
That bringeth forth its fruit in its season,
Whose leaf also doth not wither;
And ^[a]whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

⁴ The wicked are not so,
But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

⁶ For Jehovah knoweth the way of the righteous;
But the way of the wicked shall perish.