Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the way of mockers but his delight is in the law of the Lord and on his law he meditates day and night he is like a tree planted by streams of water which yielded fruit in season and whose leaf does not weather whatever he does prospers not so the wicked there like chaff that the wind blows away therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous for the Lord watches over the way of the righteous but the way of the wicked will perish