| 47. Linguistic Exegesis The negative conjunction velo {וְלֹא | və-lōʾ} ‘and not’ negates both walking and doing in their manner. A parallel structure appears between bedarkheihen halakht {בְּדַרְכֵיהֶן הָלַכְתְּ | bə-ḏar-kā-hên hā-lākht} and uvetoavoteihen asit {וּבְתוֹעֲבֹתֵיהֶן עָשִׂית | ū-və-ṯō-ʿă-ḇō-ṯê-hên ʿā-śît}, reinforcing the behavioral contrast. The idiom kim'at kat {כִּמְעַט קָט | kim-ʿaṭ qāṭ} uses a diminutive for understatement. The Hiphil form vattashchiti {וַתַּשְׁחִתִי | wa-ṯaš-ḥîṯî} indicates causative self-corruption, intensified by mehen {מֵהֵן | mē-hên} ‘more than them’ and completed with bekhol-derakhayikh {בְּכָל־דְּרָכָיִךְ | bə-ḵōl-ḏə-rā-ḵā-yikh} ‘in all your ways,’ underscoring the totality of moral decline. |