Psalm 23:3-4
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
3 (A)he restores my soul.
He guides me along right paths[a]
for the sake of his name.
4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,(B)
I will fear no evil, for you are with me;
your rod and your staff comfort me.
Footnotes
- 23:3 Right paths: connotes “right way” and “way of righteousness.”
Proverbs 11:3
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
3 The honesty of the upright guides them;
the faithless are ruined by their duplicity.
Proverbs 11:5
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
5 The justice of the honest makes their way straight,
but by their wickedness the wicked fall.[a](A)
Footnotes
- 11:5 In Hebrew as in English, “way” means the course of one’s life; similarly, “straight” and “crooked” are metaphors for morally straightforward and for bad, deviant, perverted.
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