How do “wa-l-yakhsha” and “fa-l-yattaqū” relate in 4:9?

Rhetorical Addition: Emphasis, Explanatory Coordination, Connections and Multiple Meanings

• These are opposing commands to two unrelated groups
• The second simply repeats the feeling without a practical demand
• The latter is only a temporal answer with no ethical force
• Concern for vulnerable offspring leads to God-conscious conduct