--- title: "Psalms 1 - Study King James Bible with cokes commentary on the holy bible" description: "Read Psalms 1 with cokes commentary on the holy bible commentary. 1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2 But hi" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/cokes-commentary-on-the-holy-bible/psalms/1" --- [ Read](/kjv/psalms/1)[ Commentary](/study/psalms/1)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/psalms/1) Audio 1 Blessed *is* the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.* 2 But his delight *is* in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.* 4 The ungodly *are* not so: but *are* like the chaff which the wind driveth away. 5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. 6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. [Job 42](/study/job/42) [Psalms 2](/study/psalms/2) ## Commentary To verse 1 ***The happiness of the godly; the unhappiness of the ungodly.******[Psalms 1:1](/kjv/psalms/1/1)*****.*****Blessed is the man*****—** This Psalm is generally supposed to have been designed as a preface to the rest, and as a short luminary of the whole book. The subject of it is, the difference between pious and ungodly men, both in this life and in that which is to come: it was compared either by the collector of this book of Psalms, or by David himself, as Apollinarius and others think. Fenwick, in his introduction to this Psalm, thinks that the subject of it, as of the whole book, is the Messiah; who seems, says he, to be *THE Man,*(for the Hebrew is emphatical,) whom the prophet here meant to describe as a Blessed One: and so judged St. Augustin. He came to give us an example and to fulfil all righteousness, and is, for that reason, represented as never walking in the counsel of the wicked, but placing his whole delight in the law of the Lord. The character of this Blessed One appears to be drawn here by way of climax. He does not *walk after the counsel of the wicked;*he does not *stand,*or even take a step *in the way of sinners;*he does not even *sit*in company, so as to have any intimacy or familiar correspondence with such *scorners*of God and his law, though occasionally, and for their good, he converses with them. Thus, *I have not sat with vain persons,—I will not sit with the wicked,*Psa 26:4-5 plainly mean, "I will not make them my familiars or chosen companions;" and, thus taken, it seems most naturally to lead to the character of one *whose whole delight is in the law of the Lord,*and who, for that reason, will be so far from doing evil himself, that he will never enter into any familiarity with evil men. 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