Psalms 37:16-38

¹⁶Better is the little of the righteous, Than the store of many wicked.

¹⁷For the arms of the wicked are shivered, And Jehovah is sustaining the righteous.

¹⁸Jehovah knoweth the days of the perfect, And their inheritance is — to the age.

¹⁹They are not ashamed in a time of evil, And in days of famine they are satisfied.

²⁰But the wicked perish, and the enemies of Jehovah, As the preciousness of lambs, Have been consumed, In smoke they have been consumed.

²¹The wicked is borrowing and repayeth not, And the righteous is gracious and giving.

²²For His blessed ones do possess the land, And His reviled ones are cut off.

²³From Jehovah are the steps of a man, They have been prepared, And his way he desireth.

²⁴When he falleth, he is not cast down, For Jehovah is sustaining his hand.

²⁵Young I have been, I have also become old, And I have not seen the righteous forsaken, And his seed seeking bread.

²⁶All the day he is gracious and lending, And his seed is for a blessing.

²⁷Turn aside from evil, and do good, and dwell to the age.

²⁸For Jehovah is loving judgment, And He doth not forsake His saintly ones, To the age they have been kept, And the seed of the wicked is cut off.

²⁹The righteous possess the land, And they dwell for ever on it.

³⁰The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And his tongue speaketh judgment.

³¹The law of his God is his heart, His steps do not slide.

³²The wicked is watching for the righteous, And is seeking to put him to death.

³³Jehovah doth not leave him in his hand, Nor condemn him in his being judged.

³⁴Look unto Jehovah, and keep His way, And He doth exalt thee to possess the land, In the wicked being cut off — thou seest!

³⁵I have seen the wicked terrible, And spreading as a green native plant,

³⁶And he passeth away, and lo, he is not, And I seek him, and he is not found!

³⁷Observe the perfect, and see the upright, For the latter end of each is peace.

³⁸And transgressors were destroyed together, The latter end of the wicked was cut off.