Common English Bible CEB
New King James Version NKJV
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 man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;
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 his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates 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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He shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers of water, That brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also shall not wither; And whatever he does shall prosper.
4 That's not true for the wicked! They are like dust that the wind blows away.
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The ungodly are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind drives 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 ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, Nor sinners in the congregation 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 knows the way of the righteous, But the way of the ungodly shall perish.
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