Mark the Perfect Man

"Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace. But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off. The righteous man has his feet firmly planted on the Rock: the ungodly man builds everything on shifting sand." This is Psalm 37:37. It is interesting to me because of the style of the punctuation. Most of the quotes that I have looked at so far have been because of the words - their order, their meaning, the word choice, etc. I have never really looked deeply at punctuation. I am interested in these hieroglyphics because the use of so many subsequent colons seems like the Hoffmans would love it, Crystal would be interested in the first time so many colons were used one after the other, Truss would shoot the writer dead or beat him about the cranium with a bamboo shoot, Strunk and his protege would roll around in their graves - thinking that if they were alive they would have to break this glowning-miniature-color-typewriter, Trimble would encourage the author to avoid such a thing, and Lanham would say: "oh hey, that isn't hoitioteulocoptertelathon is it!". Grammar Moves guys, probably about where Trimble is..? I like that the colon after colon after colon visually and stylistically (and TACITLY) demonstrates that there is an order to these things; that one logically follows, or comes from, or is the antecedent. I also appreciate what it says to a point. It does also sound cool. Brilliant.