| 11. Linguistic Exegesis The verse is built as two parallel cola, each driven by a Hiphil verb that presents Job as the object of forced transfer: yasgireni {יַסְגִּירֵ֣נִי | yas-gî-rê-nî} ‘He gives me over’ in the first line and yirteni {יִרְטֵֽנִי | yir-ṭə-nî} ‘He hurls me’ in the second. The subject el {אֵ֭ל | ʾēl} ‘God’ is placed after the opening verb, heightening the shock of divine agency within Job’s lament. The first prepositional phrase el {אֶ֣ל | ʾel} introduces a singular recipient, avil {עֲוִ֑יל | ʿă-wîl} ‘evil one,’ while the second line escalates the threat by shifting to a plural group, reshaim {רְשָׁעִ֣ים | rə-šā-ʿîm} ‘wicked ones,’ framed by the construct chain veal-yedei {וְעַל־יְדֵ֖י | wə-ʿal-yə-ḏê} ‘upon the hands of,’ an idiom for being placed under another’s power. English keeps the parallelism by using two coordinated actions (“gives me over … and hurls/throws me”) and preserves the singular-to-plural movement to reflect intensifying oppression. |