| 18. Linguistic Exegesis The verse employs antithetic parallelism with reish {רֵ֣ישׁ | rēš} ‘poverty’ contrasted by veqalon {וְ֭קָלוֹן | wə-qā-lōn} ‘disgrace.’ The participle porea {פּוֹרֵ֣עַ | pō-rē-ʿa} ‘refuses’ discipline establishes the negative clause, while the adversative vav on veshomer {וְשׁוֹמֵ֖ר | wə-šō-mēr} signals the counterclause centered on tokhachat {תּוֹכַ֣חַת | tō-kha-ḥat} ‘correction.’ The pual imperfect yekubad {יְכֻבָּֽד | yĕ-kub-bāḏ} ‘will be honored’ underscores passive reception of esteem. This biclausal structure mirrors Hebrew’s cause-and-effect and contrasting patterns, rendered in English with conditional syntax to preserve nuance. |