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The discourse is now summarily brought to a close:
32 For the perverseness of the simple slays them,
And the security of fools destroys them.
33 But whoever harkeneth to me dwells secure,
And is at rest from fear of evil.
Of the two interpretations of שׁוּב, a turning towards (with אֶל and the like, conversion) or a turning away (with מֵאַחֲרֵי or מֵעַל, desertion), in מְשׁוּבָה the latter (as in the post-Bib. תְּשׁוּבָה, repentance, the former) is expressed; apostasy from wisdom and from God are conjoined. שַׁלְוָה is here carnalis securitas; but the word may also denote the external and the internal peace of the righteous, as שַׁאֲנָן, whence שַׁלְאֲנָן, Job 21:23, as a superlative is formed by the insertion of the ל of שָׁלֵו, is taken in bonam et malam partem. שַׁאֲנָן is, according to the Masora (also in Jer 30:10; Jer 46:27; Jer 48:11), 3rd perf. Pilel (Ewald, §120, a), from the unused שָׁאַן, to be quiet: he has attained to full quietness, and enjoys such. The construction with מִן follows the analogy of הֵנִיחַ מִן (to give rest from), שָׁקַט מִן (to rest from), and the like. The negative interpretation of מִן, sine ullo pavore mali (Schultens, Ewald), is unnecessary; also Job 21:9 may be explained by “peace from terror,” especially since שָׁלוֹם is derived from the root של, extrahere. פַּחַד רָעָה, “fear of evil,” one may perhaps distinguish from פחד רע as the genitive of combination.