| 2. Linguistic Exegesis The verse begins with the comparative phrase keda'tekhem {כְּֽ֭דַעְתְּכֶם | kə-daʿ-tə-ḵem} ‘according to your knowledge,’ marking the standard against which Job’s assertion is measured. The main verb yadati {יָדַ֣עְתִּי | yā-daʿ-tî} ‘I have known’ asserts Job’s awareness. The emphatic adverbial pronoun gam-ani {גַם־אָ֑נִי | gam ʾā-nî} ‘also I’ amplifies this claim. The second clause features the negation particle lo {לֹא | lōʾ} plus the participle nofel {נֹפֵל | nō-p̄ēl} ‘falling,’ creating a status evaluation of ‘not inferior.’ Job’s emphatic pronoun anokhi {אָנֹכִ֣י | ʾā-nō-khî} reinforces the subject, and the prepositional phrase mi-kem {מִכֶּֽם | mi-kem} ‘from you’ completes the comparison. English mirrors the Hebrew parallelism and idiomatic nuance through corresponding syntactic structure. |