| 15. Linguistic Exegesis The adversative particle akh {אַ֧ךְ | ʾăḳ} ‘nevertheless’ introduces a sharp contrast. The Niphal imperfect turad {תּוּרָ֖ד | tû-rāḏ} ‘you will be brought down’ functions as a passive result clause expressing humiliation. A climactic parallelism emerges through the double directional frame of el-sheʾol {אֶל־שְׁאוֹל | ʾel-šəʾōl} ‘to Sheol’ and el-yarketei {אֶל־יַרְכְּתֵי־ | ʾel-yar-kəṯ-ê} ‘to the sides’, with bor {בֽוֹר׃ | bôr} ‘pit’ completing the construct chain to heighten the sense of extreme descent. |