| 30. Linguistic Exegesis The conjunction ki {כִּי | kî} ‘for, because’ opens a supporting explanation within Job’s argument about the apparent delay of judgment. The first colon is framed by the prepositional phrase le-yom {לְיוֹם | lə-yôm} ‘for a day,’ expressing an appointed time rather than mere timing, followed by eyd {אֵיד | ʾêḏ} ‘disaster’ to name the threatening event. The passive verb yechasekh {יֵחָשֶׂךְ | yē-ḥāśēḵ} ‘is withheld/spared’ places the evil person as the recipient of restraint, implying that judgment is postponed rather than absent. After the main pause, the second colon repeats le-yom {לְיוֹם | lə-yôm} to create tight parallelism, now intensified by avarot {עֲבָרוֹת | ʿăvārôṯ} ‘wraths’ (plural), portraying accumulated or repeated surges of anger. The closing passive yuvalu {יוּבָלוּ | yūḇālû} ‘they are led/brought’ depicts compelled movement toward that destined day. English rendering keeps the paired “for a day … to a day” structure and retains the two passives to convey both delay (being spared) and inevitability (being led to wrath). |