Good and Evil

IN THIS BOOK I discuss five psalms, all of which treat of the relation between right doing and wrong doing, between the rightdoers and the wrongdoers on earth, and so of the world struggle between good and evil. These psalms, as can be seen from the many stylistic differences, undoubtedly are the work of different authors; but the men who speak in them are so near to one another in their basic view and attitude that one may see in their place a single figure, who is simply multiplied in them, namely, \*the Psalmist\*. In fact, when these psalms are set in the right sequence they complete one another like the stages of a personal way a way leading through moving and transforming experiences to one great insight. This way begins (in Psalm 12) with the Psalmist confronted by a world dominated by the 'smooth