his name. Moreover, the book’s function on “the day” will be to enable the “fearers” to make the sorts of distinctions between the righteous and the wicked that had heretofore been impossible to make. The language of bifurcation (righteous, serves God—versus wicked, does not serve God) in v. 18 echoes the similar distinctions in vv. 14–15. But now, because of this book, both God and at least some Yahwists, namely, the “fearers,” will be able to distinguish between the good and the bad within the