Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Paul Zellmer" <pzellmer AT sc.rr.com>]

Bryan,

I'm not sure if these verse are actually germane to Prov 14:32, because they
are treating death as something either to be avoided or rescued from.  Each
of them uses the preposition Mi(N).   But Prov 14:32 talks either about
death itself or the time of death as something beneficial or desirable.
Hence the use of the preposition B.

Just my thots, good professor!

Paul Zellmer

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> [mailto:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of B. M. Rocine
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> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Prov 14:32
>
>
> 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.
> >