PARALLELISM: A RESTATEMENT 67
the verb to the end of the second line,^1 renders
the two remaining variations of the fundamental
scheme, viz.--
a. b. c
b'. c'. a'
and
a. b. c
c'. b'. a'
very frequent, though of course both of these
schemes may also arise from other causes.^2
Examples of the former of the two schemes just
given are--
rfym hyrx Mkh Nk-lf
Mddwy tvbrf bxz
Therefore shall-slay-them a-lion out-of-the-forest,
A-wolf of-the-steppes shall-spoil-them.—Jer. v. 6.
jlm ynpl rdhtt-lx
dmft-lx Mylvdg Mvqmbv
Glorify-not-thyself in-the-presence of-the-king,
And-in-the-place of-great-men stand-not.—Prov. xxv. 6.
Four further examples may be found in
Proverbs ii. 5, 8, 10, 20. See also e.g. Job iii.
6 b, c; Amos v. 23; Isaiah xi. 6 a, b, lx. 16 a, b;
Judith xvi. 10 (the last couplet in the passage
cited above, p. 25).
1 The alternative of throwing the verb to the end of the first line,
and giving it the normal (prose) position in the second line, thus bringing
the two verbs together, is much less frequent. But a good example of
this is Deut. xxxii. 38 : see also vv. 3 and 18 in the same chapter.
2 As e.g. in Job iv. 17.