Common English Bible w/ Apocrypha CEBA
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1 The truly happy person doesn't follow wicked advice, doesn't stand on the road of sinners, and doesn't sit with the disrespectful.
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Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers,
2 Instead of doing those things, these persons love the LORD's Instruction, and they recite God's Instruction day and night!
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but whose delight is in the law of the LORD, and who meditates on his law day and night.
3 They are like a tree replanted by streams of water, which bears fruit at just the right time and whose leaves don't fade. Whatever they do succeeds.
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That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither— whatever they do prospers.
4 That's not true for the wicked! They are like dust that the wind blows away.
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Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away.
5 And that's why the wicked will have no standing in the court of justice— neither will sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
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Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
6 The LORD is intimately acquainted with the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked is destroyed.
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For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked leads to destruction.
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