1 Welgeluksalig is die man wat nie wandel in die raad van die goddelose en nie staan op die weg van die sondaars en nie sit in die kring van die spotters nie;

2 maar sy behae is in die wet van die HERE, en hy oordink sy wet dag en nag.

3 En hy sal wees soos 'n boom wat geplant is by waterstrome, wat sy vrugte gee op sy tyd en waarvan die blare nie verwelk nie; en alles wat hy doen, voer hy voorspoedig uit.

4 So is die goddelose mense nie, maar soos kaf wat die wind verstrooi.

5 Daarom sal die goddelose nie bestaan in die oordeel en die sondaars in die vergadering van die regverdiges nie.

6 Want die HERE ken die weg van die regverdiges, maar die weg van die goddelose sal vergaan.

1 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 But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose mind is on his law day and night.

3 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 The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.

5 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 Because the Lord sees the way of the upright, but the end of the sinner is destruction.