وَتَخْشَى النَّاسَ وَاللَّهُ أَحَقُّ أَنْ تَخْشَاهُ
You fear people, while God has a greater claim that you should fear Him.
“Takhshā” and “takhshāhu” connect semantically and morphologically across the progression of the statement. In radd al-ʿajz, the placement of the recurring expression matters, not mere shared roots.
Replacing the closing verb with an unrelated synonym might preserve broad sense while weakening the verbal return. The figure is not reducible to complete jinās between two independent words.