[1] A person will be truly happy if he doesn’t follow the advice of bad people and doesn’t live like sinners and doesn’t feel at home with people who don’t respect God.
[2] A good person loves the Lord’s teachings. He thinks about them day and night.
[3] So that person becomes strong like a tree planted by streams of water He is like a tree that makes fruit at the right time. He is like a tree with leaves that don’t die. Everything he does is successful.
[4] But bad people are not like that. Bad people are like chaff that the wind blows away.
[5] If good people gather together to decide a court case, then bad people will be proved guilty. Those sinners will not be judged innocent.
[6] Why? Because the Lord protects good people, but destroys bad people.