At 01:12 PM 7/15/03 -0400, you wrote:
>Jim,
>
>"Ner" with a tsere is a lamp; "Nir" with a hireq (like here; although I
>think there are MT manuscripts that have "ner") is a plowed furrow.
>Assuming that this reading is correct, the wicked sows sin.
>
>Yigal
Agreed, of course. But how does either match up with the first phrase of
the verse?
A high look,
a proud heart:
the wicked sows sin.
or
a high look,
a proud heart:
the wicked plow a furrow.
Either way, im not getting how b follows from a.
Thanks
Jim
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Quartz Hill School of Theology
Adjunct Professor of Biblical Studies