The righteousness of the perfect Makes his way straight, But by his own wrongness the wrong one falls.
The wrong one is entrapped In his own crookednesses, And he is caught in the cords of his sin.
The integrity of the straight ones guides them, But the slipperiness of the treacherous destroys them.
Know Him in all your ways, And He makes all your paths straight.
And Aḥ
And when the men of Yisra’ĕ
A man is not established by wrongness, But the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
A wrong man hardens his face, But as for the straight, he establishes his way.
The steps of his strength are impeded, and his own counsel overthrows him.
But they lie in wait for their own blood, They ambush their own lives.
Righteousness watches over him who is perfect in the way, But wrongness overthrows the sinner.
By his own evildoing the wrong is thrust down, But the righteous has a refuge in his death.
The way of a lazy one is like a hedge of thorns, But the way of the straight is a highway.
He who walks blamelessly is saved, But the perverted of ways falls at once.
The path of the righteous is uprightness; O upright One, You weigh the course of the righteous.
“And the Excellency of Yisra’ĕ