Biblical Hebrew Forum

["B. M. Rocine" <brocine AT twcny.rr.com>]

B-Haverim, would it be okay to add to a previous post?

I note a theme in the Scriptures germane to Pro 14:32, namely that
righteousness delivers from death:

Ps. 33:19; Ps. 56:13; Ps. 116:8; Prov. 10:2; Prov. 11:4; Hos. 13:14

Shalom,
Bryan

I had written:

>
> There is another reason to prefer a reference to the righteous one, I
think.
> We expect, because of the special convention of parallelism in BH poetry
in
> general and specifically evident in Proverbs, that the second verset "out
> does" or "tops" the first verset.  So while the guilty one is overtaken in
> his calamity, the righteous one has refuge in even the greatest of
> calamities, death.
>

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