| Sumario: | In this article, I offer an analysis of Mic 7:7-10. After addressing the unit's delimitation, I turn to consider the unit's affinity to individual psalms of lamentation, on the one hand, and the schematic retribution doctrine of the wisdom school, on the other. The affinity is both thematic and ideological and is expressed through linguistic, literary, and structural characteristics. That these links demonstrate the unique independent characteristics of Mic 7:7-10 is equally significant. This analysis of the unit exposes the approach of the verses toward the relationship between the speaker and God, the theory of retribution, and the issue of divine presence in human reality--formulated in the unit as an internal discussion between the speaker and his ... (nepeš, "soul"). The article demonstrates how the unit uses the resemblance and dissimilarity to psalms of lamentation and sapiential verses as a tool for representing its unique ideology, which is part of a broader debate on the Book of Micah: balancing the demand for acknowledging divine presence and power against the expectation for human action.
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