The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
The Bible in Basic English BBE
1 How blessed are those who reject the advice of the wicked, don't stand on the way of sinners or sit where scoffers sit!
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Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord.
2 Their delight is in ADONAI's Torah; on his Torah they meditate day and night.
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But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose mind is on his law day and night.
3 They are like trees planted by streams -they bear their fruit in season, their leaves never wither, everything they do succeeds.
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He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.
4 Not so the wicked, who are like chaff driven by the wind.
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The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.
5 For this reason the wicked won't stand up to the judgment, nor will sinners at the gathering of the righteous.
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For this cause there will be no mercy for sinners when they are judged, and the evil-doers will have no place among the upright,
6 For ADONAI watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked is doomed.
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Because the Lord sees the way of the upright, but the end of the sinner is destruction.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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