For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.
⛓ Read Psalm 1 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'The LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish' — the two-ways frame (the same Psalm informs 7:17-19 on trees/fruit).
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
"The LORD knows the way of the righteous" is the wisdom-tradition counterpart to Paul's claim that the one who loves God is known by him. Faint volume; offered as a candidate for the OT idiom of God's saving knowledge of the righteous. Contested because no verbal contact beyond the verb "know."
Low confidence'The LORD knows the way of the righteous' — divine 'knowing' as covenantal acknowledgment, denied to the iniquitous in 7:23.
Low confidence