Psalm 1/Notes/Verbal.V. 4.151414
From Psalms: Layer by Layer
The tense of v. 4 (כמץ) is probably future, paralleling that of v. 3 (והיה כעץ). Because it is a verbless clause (no היה, unlike v. 3) it is glossed here as a stative ("will be") and not as an inchoative ("will become," as in v. 3).