Kabbalah Mazmur 32:2: Zohar

AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING: TAKE THE SUM OF THE SONS OF GERSHON, ETC. R. Abba began a discourse on the verse: “Happy is the man unto whom the Lord counteth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile” (Ps. 32, 2). ‘The two halves of this verse’, he said, ‘do not seem to hang together,¹The first half implies that there is iniquity in him, the second that there is not.

An improper word, however, a word uttered by an evil tongue, goes up to its assigned spot, where it is put on record, charging the man with the commission of a sin. Of this Scripture says: “Keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom”¹i.e. the soul. (Micah 7, 5). Hence the Psalm says: “Happy is the man unto whom the Lord counteth not iniquity”, to wit, the man “in whose spirit there is no guile”.¹The last 7 lines of the Hebrew text are not found in our translation.