Chiasm
Proverbs 21:2–8
Proverbs 21:2–83 matched frames1 pivot
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but Yahweh pondereth the hearts.
- B 3 To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.
- C 4 An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.
- D 5 The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.
- C' 6-7 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death. The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them;
- C 4 An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.
- B' 7 because they refuse to do judgment.
- B 3 To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.
- A' 8 The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.