| 2. Linguistic Exegesis kol darkhei ish {כָּֽל־דַּרְכֵי־אִ֭ישׁ | kāl-darḵēy-ʾîš} ‘all the ways of a man’ functions as a construct phrase indicating total human conduct. Zakh {זַ֣ךְ | zaḵ} ‘clean’ receives subjective qualification by the prepositional phrase be-einav {בְּעֵינָ֑יו | bə-ʿê-nāyw} ‘in his eyes’. The conjunction ve {וְ | wə} introduces contrastive parallelism, linking the human vantage to divine assessment. Tokhen {תֹכֵ֖ן | ṯōḵēn} ‘weighs’, a Qal participle, begins the second clause. Rukhot {רוּחוֹת | rūḥōṯ} ‘spirits’ serves as the direct object, followed by the subject Yahweh {יְהוָֽה | Yəhōwāh}, reflecting a VSO order that emphasizes divine agency. |