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A simplistic view of life?

Psalm 1:1-6

One commentary asserts that life is not as simple as Psalm 1 states. Dick begs to differ. Much depends on how the word variously translated as ‘happy’ or ‘blessed’ is interpreted and what the psalmist means by ‘prospers’. The psalm as a whole interprets itself vividly as it contrasts two ways to live.

Psalm 1:1-6

Book One

The Way of the Righteous and the Wicked

Blessed is the man
    who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners,
    nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
2 but his delight is in the law of the Lord,
    and on his law he meditates day and night.

3 He is like a tree
    planted by streams of water
that yields its fruit in its season,
    and its leaf does not wither.
In all that he does, he prospers.
4 The wicked are not so,
    but are like chaff that the wind drives away.

5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
    nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
6 for the Lord knows the way of the righteous,
    but the way of the wicked will perish.

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