Ernst R. Wendland, Discourse Perspectives on Hebrew Poetry in the Scriptures, [1994], 40 the normal form of the infinitive construct of yarad occurs in verse 9--a passage which parallels verse 3 in the pattern of introversion that structures this text as a whole, i.e., beridti "in my going down." Thus an alternative form, as indicated here by the qere, is not likely within the same discourse (cp. Craigie 1983:251).