BOOK I

Psalms 1–41

The Two Paths
(Matthew 5:3–12; Luke 6:20–23)

1Happy the man who went not in the counsel of the unjust, and he stood not in the way of the sinful, and sat not in the seat of those scoffing.

2But his delight is in the law of Jehovah, and in his law he will meditate day and night.

3And he was as a tree planted by the streams of water which will give its fruit in its time; his leaf shall not fall away, and all which he shall do shall be prospered.

4Not so the unjust: but as the chaff which the wind shall drive away.

5For this, the unjust shall not rise up in judgment, and the sinful in the assembly of the just.

6For Jehovah shall know the way of the just: but the way of the unjust shall perish.