Hebrew Parallelism

Psalm 1:1 "Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked and does not stand in the way of sinners and does not sit in the seat of scoffers"

With just looking at the text from the first verse of the first Psalm.... You can get a great idea of the concept of Parallelism that is used in Hebrew wisdom literature. One line repeats the concept expressed in the previous line, but states it in a different manner. The repetition can be done in a variety of ways so that there is actually a progression of thought between the two phrases. The first part of psalm 1 actually contains 3 parallel lines. I have made a handy dandy chart to display the parallelism:

Action

Place (literal or conceptual)

Person

Walk	Counsel (bad)	Wicked
Stand	Way	Sinners
Sit	Seat	Scoffers

Perhaps there is a progression between the three verbs walk-stand-sit... where walking among the wicked would be bad.. standing with the wicked would be worse... and sitting with the wicked would be even worse. It sounds good, but I'm not willing to go out on a limb with that, I'll just leave it at "perhaps"