21 So this is what Yahweh has said: ‘Look! I will place before this people Obstacles over which they will stumble; Fathers and sons together, Neighbor and friend will perish.’ ”6 The segment vv. 16–21 raises a number of questions. There is disagreement among the commentators as to whether it is prose or poetry. John Bright and RSV treat it as poetic, as we do in this commentary, because of the many parallelisms. NEB and GNB regard it as prose except for v. 21. E. W. Nicholson agrees that it has an
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