Psalm 16/Notes/Grammar.v. 4.145085

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  • Verse 4 is also difficult, and many of the proposals to interpret v. 3 involve v. 4 as well. (See e.g., the v. 3 alternative 3 diagram, which treats vv. 2–4 as one big syntactic unit.) We argue that v. 4 is syntactically independent from v. 3. Verse 4a consists of two independent clauses: "Their idols increase; they have acquired (lit: 'paid the bride price for') another one." See The Text and Grammar of Psalm16:4 for a detailed discussion of this verse.