²³ Then you will go on your way in safety,^(A)
    and your foot will not stumble.^(B)

19 Better the poor whose walk is blameless
    than a fool whose lips are perverse.^(A)

⁷ The righteous lead blameless lives;^(A)
    blessed are their children after them.^(B)

⁶ Better the poor whose walk is blameless
    than the rich whose ways are perverse.^(A)

¹⁸ The one whose walk is blameless is kept safe,^(A)
    but the one whose ways are perverse will fall^(B) into the pit.^[a]

¹⁵ Those who walk righteously^(A)
    and speak what is right,^(B)
who reject gain from extortion^(C)
    and keep their hands from accepting bribes,^(D)
who stop their ears against plots of murder
    and shut their eyes^(E) against contemplating evil—
¹⁶ they are the ones who will dwell on the heights,^(F)
    whose refuge^(G) will be the mountain fortress.^(H)
Their bread will be supplied,
    and water will not fail^(I) them.