Sunday, April 2, 2023

Psalm 119:150, 155

In continuing on in reading Psalm 119 in the NIV, I found two more instances where two nouns are placed at opposite ends of a clause, giving a sense of distance.

Psalm 119:150:
Those who devise wicked schemes are near, but they are far from your law.
and Psalm 119:155:
Salvation is far from the wicked, for they do not seek out your degrees.
The same feature is present in the ESV, the NKJV, and even my German Psalter ("sie sind fern von deinem Gesetz" and "das Heil ist fern von den Gottlosen"), but it's not in either verse in the original Hebrew text.