overall chiastic pattern serves to differentiate the first pair of lines from the rest, while the role of the last pair, both in the original and in the secondary interpretations of the psalm, sets it apart from the preceding verses. Auffret (La sagesse, 498) has observed that in the third strophe there is repetition in the first two cola and the last two. The strophes fall into an ABA´B´ pattern, in respect of first-person references (A A´) and divine attributes (B B´) (G. Vanoni, “Wie Gott Gesellschaft