| 2. Linguistic Exegesis The verse begins with the universal quantifier kol {כָּל | kâl} ‘every,’ followed by the construct chain derekh {דֶּרֶךְ | də-rekh} ‘way’ + ish {אִישׁ | ʾîš} ‘man,’ forming a nominal clause with yashar {יָשָׁר | yā-šār} ‘right’ as predicate adjective. The prepositional phrase be-einav {בְּעֵינָיו | bə-ʿê-nāw} ‘in his eyes’ functions as a circumstantial modifier. The adversative conjunction vav in ve-tokhen {וְתֹכֵן | wə-ṯō-ḵēn} ‘weighs’ introduces the antithesis. The noun levot {לִבּוֹת | lib-bōṯ} ‘hearts’ is the direct object, and Yahweh {יְהוָה | Yəhōwāh} serves as the subject, creating an antithetic parallelism contrasting subjective human judgment with divine evaluation of motives. |