The righteousness of the upright will be their guide, but the twisted ways of the false will be their destruction.
For my clean and upright ways keep me safe, because my hope is in you.
Of David. O Lord, be my judge, for my behaviour has been upright: I have put my faith in the Lord, I am not in danger of slipping.
The righteousness of the good man will make his way straight, but the sin of the evil-doer will be the cause of his fall.
Righteousness keeps safe him whose way is without error, but evil-doers are overturned by sin.
By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.
But sinners will be cut off from the land, and those whose acts are false will be uprooted.
By their violent acts the evil-doers will be pulled away, because they have no desire to do what is right.
The eyes of the Lord keep knowledge, but by him the acts of the false man will be overturned.
He whose ways are upright will be safe, but sudden will be the fall of him whose ways are twisted.
Be not evil overmuch, and be not foolish. Why come to your end before your time?
But a common destruction will overtake sinners and evil-doers together, and those who have gone away from the Lord will be cut off.
They put the kings of Midian to death with the rest, Evi and Reken and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian: and Balaam, the son of Beor, they put to death with the sword.
If any man is ready to do God's pleasure he will have knowledge of the teaching and of where it comes fromfrom God or from myself.