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1:1 \u201cHappy the man who has not walked in the wicked\u2019s counsel, nor in the way of offenders has stood, nor in the session of scoffers has sat.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It is easy to understand why the ancient editors set this brief, eloquent psalm at the head of the collection. In content, it is a Wisdom psalm, affirming the traditional moral calculus (to which Job will powerfully object) that it pays to be good, whereas the wicked will be paid back for their evil. (Wisdom literature is an international genre in the ancient Near East. It reflects, in an approximately philosophical manner, on the use of human life, and one of its major thrusts is the didactic inculcation of the principles of proper living. It tends to be universal rather than national in its perspective.) In style, this psalm is a lovely instance of the force of familiar imagery favored by the psalmists. Walking on a way is a traditional metaphor for pursuing a set of moral choices in life. In this verse, that idea is turned into an elegant narrative sequence in the triadic line–first walking, then standing, then sitting, with the attachment to the company of evildoers becoming increasingly more habitual from one verse to the next. Nahum Sarna raises the interesting possibility that the first word of the psalm, <\/em><\/span>\u2018ashrei<\/span><\/em>, \u201chappy,\u201d may pun on <\/span>\u2018ashurim<\/span><\/em>, \u201csteps,\u201d and hence reinforce the walking metaphor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 3: Writings, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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