³ The righteousness of the upright will be their guide, but the twisted ways of the false will be their destruction.

⁶ Righteousness keeps safe him whose way is without error, but evil-doers are overturned by sin.

¹⁷ If any man is ready to do God's pleasure he will have knowledge of the teaching and of where it comes from--from God or from myself.

²⁸ But a common destruction will overtake sinners and evil-doers together, and those who have gone away from the Lord will be cut off.

¹⁷ Be not evil overmuch, and be not foolish. Why come to your end before your time?

¹⁸ He whose ways are upright will be safe, but sudden will be the fall of him whose ways are twisted.

⁷ By their violent acts the evil-doers will be pulled away, because they have no desire to do what is right.

³ By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.

⁵ 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.

¹ <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.

²¹ For my clean and upright ways keep me safe, because my hope is in you.