1 Any person who doesn’t take advice from wicked people,

and doesn’t stand by the path that sinners use,

and doesn’t sit and join all the scoffers,

will reap the benefits.

2 On the contrary, they enjoy Yahweh’s instructions

and think about them day and night.

3 Those people are like trees that are planted by a stream[ref]

and which produce fruit in season.

Their leaves don’t wither,

and they prosper in everything they do.

4 But wicked people won’t prosper—

they’re like straw that gets blown away by the wind.

5 The wicked people won’t be able to stand when God judges them,

and sinners won’t be able to join in the assembly of all the godly people.

6 Because Yahweh knows the path chosen by godly people,

but the path of wicked people will be destroyed.