Psalm 1:4 (BSB)

Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.

From Psalms 1. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Psalm 1:4

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Psalm 1:1-6: Commentary upon the book of Psalms PSALM 1. He who collected the Psalms into one volume, whether Ezra or some other person, appears to have placed this Psalm at the beginning, by way of preface, in which he inculcates upon all the godly the duty of meditating upon the law of God.
• C.H. Spurgeon (Reformed Baptist), The Treasury of David on Psalm 1:4: We have now come to the second head of the Psalm. In this verse the contrast of the ill estate of the wicked is employed to heighten the coloring of that fair and pleasant picture which precedes it. The more forcible translation of the Vulgate and of the Septuagint version is — "Not so the ungodly, not so." And we are hereby to understand that...
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Psalm 1:4-6: Here is, I. The description of the ungodly given, Psa 1:4. 1. In general, they are the reverse of the righteous, both in character and condition: They are not so. The Septuagint emphatically repeats this: Not so the ungodly; they are not so; they are led by the counsel of the wicked, in the way of sinners, to the seat of the scornful; they have...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Psalm 1:4: The ungodly are not so,.... They are not as the good man is; their manner and course of life are different; they walk in the counsel of ungodly men, like themselves, and take counsel against the Lord, his Anointed, and his people: they stand in the way of sinners, and steer their conversation according to the course of the world, and sit in the seat...