Symmetry to the rescue

A key concept in godly matters is symmetry, where two things look alike. Some examples:
Jesus Christ is the Word of God.
Human beings were originally created in the image of God.
All Christians are to look like Christ.
God clarifies through parallelism, where a statement is repeated using other words.

Another beautiful example of symmetry is chiasmus, so called because it is alike the Greek letter X (pronounced "chi"). Poetic notation describes chiasmus with forms such as ABB'A' or ABCB'A'. 

Chiasmus, like parallelism, clarifies (and helps a translator know when he or she has found the intended meaning of an ancient text). For example, consider the chiasmus of 1 Corinthians 13:7. 
[Love] bears all things, 
entrusts all things, 
hopes all things,
endures all things. (Christ Family Bible)

It is delightful to find that chiasmus can also be found in the first few lines of Psalm 14 (Ps. 13 in the LXX; Ps. 14 in the BHS) that in translations are often strangely inelegant. 

1  A foolish person says in his heart, "There is no God.
         They* destroy; they are sickening by their practices.
         There is not one doing virtue. There is not even one."
2  Lord from the Heaven looked upon the children of humans,
         to see if there is one considering or seeking out the God.
3  "All have deviated; together they are rendered useless.
         There is not one doing virtue. There is not even one.[..."] (CFB)

The entire Psalm 14 in the Christ Family Bible version can be read here.
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* "They" in the speech of the foolish person could refer either to people or to gods. Either way, the foolish person is claiming that anarchy (among people, or among gods) proves that there is no God.

CFB: Scripture quoted from the Christ Family Bible. Copyright © 2017 by J.J. Thomas. Used by permission. All rights reserved.