וּפִ֥י

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 וּפִ֥י

   u-FI

   and the mouth of
2. phraseyour reading level🔊 וּפִ֥י רְ֝שָׁעִ֗ים

   u-FI re-sha-IM

   and the mouth of wicked ones
3. clause🔊 וּפִ֥י רְ֝שָׁעִ֗ים יְבַלַּע־אָֽוֶן׃

   u-FI re-sha-IM ye-val-LA-a-O-ven

   and the mouth of wicked ones swallows iniquity or trouble
4. sentence🔊 עֵ֣ד בְּ֭לִיַּעַל יָלִ֣יץ מִשְׁפָּ֑ט וּפִ֥י רְ֝שָׁעִ֗ים יְבַלַּע־אָֽוֶן׃

   ED be-li-YA-al ya-LITS mish-PAT u-FI re-sha-IM ye-val-LA-a-O-ven

   witness worthless or wickedness mocks or scoffs justice or judgment and the mouth of wicked ones swallows iniquity or trouble

Exegesis

The second clause mirrors this structure with the prepositional phrase ufi {וּפִי | u-fî} ‘and mouth’ as the agent, modified by resha'im {רְשָׁעִים | re-šā-ʿîm} ‘wicked,’ and the verb yevalla {יְבַלַּע | yə-bal-lāʿ} ‘swallows’ taking aven {אָוֶן | ā-ven} ‘iniquity’ as its object. The use of synonymous parallelism highlights the moral corruption of both speaker and subject matter, and the maqqef in yevalla-aven underscores the unified force of the action and its object.