Psalm 1:1
Good News Translation
Happy are those who reject the advice of evil people, who do not follow the example of sinners or join those who have no use for God.

New Revised Standard Version
Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or take the path that sinners tread, or sit in the seat of scoffers;

Contemporary English Version
God blesses those people who refuse evil advice and won't follow sinners or join in sneering at God.

New American Bible
Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, Nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in company with scoffers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence:

Psalm 1:1-3 Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence: . . .

The happiness of the godly

Psalm 1:4-6 Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth. . . .

The unhappiness of the ungodly

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Blessed

Psalm 2:12 Embrace discipline, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and you perish from the just way. [13] When his wrath shall be kindled in a short time, blessed are all they that trust in him.

Psalm 32:1,2 To David himself, understanding. Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. . . .

Psalm 34:8 O taste, and see that the Lord is sweet: blessed is the man that hopeth in him.

Psalm 84:12 He will not deprive of good things them that walk in innocence: O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

Psalm 106:3 Blessed are they that keep judgment, and do justice at all times.

Psalm 112:1 Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord: he shall delight exceedingly in his commandments.

Psalm 115:12-15 The Lord hath been mindful of us, and hath blessed us. He hath blessed the house of Israel: he hath blessed the house of Aaron. . . .

Psalm 119:1,2 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. . . .

Psalm 144:15 They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but happy is that people whose God is the Lord.

Psalm 146:5 Blessed is he who hath the God of Jacob for his helper, whose hope is in the Lord his God:

Deuteronomy 28:2 And all these blessings shall come upon thee and overtake thee: yet so if thou hear his precepts.

Deuteronomy 33:29 Blessed art thou, Israel: who is like to thee, O people, that art saved by the Lord? the shield of thy help, and the sword of thy glory: thy enemies shall deny thee, and thou shalt tread upon their necks.

Jeremiah 17:7 Blessed be the man that trusteth in the Lord, and the Lord shall be his confidence.

Matthew 16:17 And Jesus answering said to him: Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven.

Luke 11:28 But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.

John 13:17 If you know these things, you shall be blessed if you do them.

John 20:29 Jesus saith to him: Because thou hast seen me, Thomas, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen and have believed.

Revelation 22:14 Blessed are they that wash their robes in the blood of the Lamb: that they may have a right to the tree of life and may enter in by the gates into the city.

walketh

Psalm 81:12 So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions.

Genesis 5:24 And he walked with God, and was seen no more: because God took him.

Leviticus 26:27,28 But if you will not for all this hearken to me, but will walk against me . . .

1 Kings 16:31 Nor was it enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat: but he also took to wife Jezabel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians. And he went, and served Baal, and adored him.

Job 31:5 If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath made haste to deceit:

Proverbs 1:15 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

Proverbs 4:14,15 Flee from it, pass not by it: go aside, and forsake it. . . .

Proverbs 13:20 He that walketh with the wise, shall be wise: a friend of fools shall become like to them.

Ezekiel 20:18 And I said to their children in the wilderness: Walk not in the statutes of your fathers, and observe not their judgments, nor be ye defiled with their idols:

1 Peter 4:3 For the time past is sufficient to have fulfilled the will of the Gentiles, for them who have walked in riotousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings and unlawful worshipping of idols.

counsel

Psalm 64:2 Thou hast protected me from the assembly of the malignant; from the multitude of the workers of iniquity.

Genesis 49:6 Let not my soul go into their counsel, nor my glory be in their assembly: because in their fury they slew a man, and in their self-will they undermined a wall.

2 Chronicles 22:3 He also walked in the ways of the house of Achab: for his mother pushed him on to do wickedly.

Job 10:3 Doth it seem good to thee that thou shouldst calumniate me, and oppress me, the work of thy own hands, and help the counsel of the wicked?

Job 21:16 Yet because their good things are not in their hand, may the counsel of the wicked be far from me.

Luke 23:51 (The same had not consented to their counsel and doings) of Arimathea, a city of Judea: who also himself looked for the kingdom of God.

ungodly.

Psalm 26:12 My foot hath stood in the direct way: in the churches I will bless thee, O Lord.

Romans 5:2 By whom also we have access through faith into this grace wherein we stand: and glory in the hope of the glory of the sons of God.

Ephesians 6:13 Therefore, take unto you the armour of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day and to stand in all things perfect.

way

Psalm 1:6 For the Lord knoweth the way of the just: and the way of the wicked shall perish.

Psalm 36:4 He hath devised iniquity on his bed, he hath set himself on every way that is not good: but evil he hath not hated.

Psalm 146:9 The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless and the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy.

Proverbs 2:12 Who leave the right way, and walk by dark ways:

Proverbs 4:19 My son, hearken to my words, and incline thy ear to my sayings.

Proverbs 13:15 Good instruction shall give grace: in the way of scorners is a deep pit.

Matthew 7:13,14 Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in thereat. . . .

sitteth

Psalm 26:4,5 I have not sat with the council of vanity: neither will I go in with the doers of unjust things. . . .

Psalm 119:115 Depart from me, ye malignant: and I will search the commandments of my God.

Jeremiah 15:17 I sat not in the assembly of jesters, nor did I make a boast of the presence of thy hand: I sat alone, because thou hast filled me with threats.

scornful

Proverbs 1:22 Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.

Proverbs 3:34 The wise shall possess glory: the promotion of fools is disgrace.

Proverbs 9:12 A foolish woman and clamorous, and full of allurements, and knowing nothing at all,

Proverbs 19:29 Judgments are prepared for scorners: and striking hammers for the bodies of fools.

Context
The LORD Blesses Job
17and he died an old man, and full of days. 1Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence:2But his will is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he shall meditate day and night.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:29
Blessed art thou, Israel: who is like to thee, O people, that art saved by the Lord? the shield of thy help, and the sword of thy glory: thy enemies shall deny thee, and thou shalt tread upon their necks.

Joshua 1:8
Let not the book of this law depart from thy mouth: but thou shalt meditate on it day and night, that thou mayst observe and do all things that are written in it: then shalt thou direct thy way, and understand it.

Psalm 5:9
For there is no truth in their mouth: their heart is vain.

Psalm 5:10
Their throat is an open sepulchre: they dealt deceitfully with their tongues: judge them, O God. Let them fall from their devices: according to the multitude of their wickednesses cast them out: for they have provoked thee, O Lord.

Psalm 10:2
Whilst the wicked man is proud, the poor is set on fire: they are caught in the counsels which they devise.

Psalm 17:4
That my mouth may not speak the works of men: for the sake of the words of thy lips, I have kept hard ways.

Psalm 26:4
I have not sat with the council of vanity: neither will I go in with the doers of unjust things.

Psalm 26:5
I have hated the assembly of the malignant; and with the wicked I will not sit.

Psalm 36:1
Unto the end, for the servant of God, David himself. [2] The unjust hath said within himself, that he would sin: there is no fear of God before his eyes.

Psalm 73:8
They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high.

Psalm 119:104
By thy commandments I have had understanding: therefore have I hated every way of iniquity.

Proverbs 1:15
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

Proverbs 1:22
Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.

Proverbs 4:14
Flee from it, pass not by it: go aside, and forsake it.

Proverbs 19:29
Judgments are prepared for scorners: and striking hammers for the bodies of fools.

Proverbs 21:24
The proud and the arrogant is called ignorant, who in anger worketh pride.

Proverbs 24:1
Seek not to be like evil men, neither desire to be with them:

Proverbs 29:18
When prophecy shall fail, the people shall be scattered abroad: but he that keepeth the law, is blessed.

Jeremiah 15:17
I sat not in the assembly of jesters, nor did I make a boast of the presence of thy hand: I sat alone, because thou hast filled me with threats.

Job 42:17
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