PARALLELISM: A RESTATEMENT 75
I now give illustrations of different schemes
of both types.
A
Incomplete parallelism without compensation.
hnwxrbk jyFpw hbywxv
hlHtbk jycfyv
I-will-restore thy-judges as-at-the-first,
And-thy-counsellors as-at-the-beginning (Isa. i. 26),
is an example of
a. b. c
b'. c'
and so are Proverbs ii. 18; Canticles ii. 1, 14;
Numbers xxiii. 19' c, d, 24 a, b, xxiv. 5 a, b; Psalm
vi. 2; Deuteronomy xxxii. 7 c, d, 21 a, b, 34.^1
jrzfb Mymwb bkr
MyqHw vtvxgbv
Who-rideth through-the-heavens as-thy-help,
And-in-his-dignity through-the-skies (Deut. xxxiii. 26),
1 A further example of this scheme occurs in the present text of
Hos. vii. 1--
Nvrmw tvfrv | Myrpx Nvf hlgnv
Revealed are the iniquity of Ephraim
And the wickedness of Samaria.
On the second of these lines Harper ("International Crit. Comm.")
remarks : " Here a word is needed to complete the parallelism as well
as the metre." But this is incorrectly put, unless it can be shown that
incomplete parallelism is impossible, or improbable in this connexion ;
and this cannot be done in view of another case of incomplete parallel-
ism (a. b. c a'. c') in v. 3, which Harper retains. Since the line
quoted above and v. 3 are possibly not metrically identical (v. 3 being
perhaps 3 : 3), a metrical consideration in favour of supplying a word
in v. 1 may survive ; but the argument from parallelism is invalid.