He presents the two ways and, in a sense, introduces a conflict between them and the people who choose them throughout the rest of the Psalter. The first psalm is one of the few in Book 1 that indicates no author (the same is true for Psalm 2). Nevertheless, it serves as the “foyer” to the “mansion” of the Psalter. Its words represent the attitude with which and method of how the reader should approach the rest of the Psalter. It functions much like the closing words of the book of Ecclesiastes: