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.
>
B. M. Rocine
Living Word Church
6101 Court St. Rd.
Syracuse, NY 13206