| 24. Linguistic Exegesis The verse opens with the vav-consecutive in vayyashev {וַיָּשֶׁב־ | way-ya-šēḇ} ‘and He repaid’, marking a completed divine action. It is followed by parallel clauses ketsidqi {כְּצִדְקִי | kə-ṣiḏ-qî} ‘according to my righteousness’ and kevor {כְּבוֹר | kə-ḇōr} ‘according to the cleanness’, forming synonymous parallelism that evaluates moral standing. The noun yadai {יָדַי | yā-ḏāy} ‘my hands’ anchors the ethical dimension, and the orientation phrase leneged einav {לְנֶגֶד עֵינָיו | lə-ne-ḡeḏ ʿê-nāyw} ‘before his eyes’ highlights direct divine scrutiny. In the formal rendering, the Hebrew prepositional structure is preserved to reflect poetic parallelism, whereas the dynamic translation uses causal English phrasing to convey divine reward as a response to integrity. |