H0518H–אִם–im

As for me, is my complaint to a man? or wherefore should not my spirit be impatient?

וְאִם־ (אִם) 'im- “if”

My lips shall not speak unrighteousness, nor my tongue utter deceit!

אִם־ 'im- “if”אִם־ 'im- “if”

Did not I weep for him whose days were hard? was not my soul grieved for the needy?

אִם־ 'im- “<if>?”

Should he that hateth right indeed govern? and wilt thou condemn the All-just?

וְאִם־ (אִם) 'im- “or?”

Shall it be told him if I would speak? if a man [supplied: so] say, surely he shall be swallowed up.

אִֽם־ 'im- “or?”

Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens? dost thou determine their rule over the earth?

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Will the buffalo be willing to serve thee, or will he lodge by thy crib?

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Canst thou bind the buffalo with his cord in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make his nest on high?

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Hath God forgotten to be gracious? or hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Behold, he smote the rock, and waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; is he able to give bread also, or provide flesh for his people?

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Wilt thou do wonders to the dead? shall the shades arise and praise thee? Selah.

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Once have I sworn by my holiness; I will not lie unto David:

אִֽם־ 'im- “if”

So that I swore in mine anger, that they should not enter into my rest.

אִם־ 'im- “if”

I will not come into the tent of my house, I will not go up to the couch of my bed;

אִם־ 'im- “if”אִם־ 'im- “if”

I will not give sleep to mine eyes, slumber to mine eyelids,

אִם־ 'im- “if”

I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, By the gazelles, or by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake [supplied: my] love, till he please.

אִם־ 'im- “if”וְֽאִם־ (אִם) 'im- “if”

I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, By the gazelles, or by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake [supplied: my] love, till he please.

אִם־ 'im- “if”וְֽאִם־ (אִם) 'im- “if”

And it was revealed in mine ears by Jehovah of hosts: Assuredly this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

אִם־ 'im- “if”

Hath he smitten him according to the smiting of those that smote him? Is he slain according to the slaughter of those slain by him?

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

[supplied: Oh] your perverseness! -- Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay, so that the work should say of him that made it, He made me not; or the thing formed say of him that formed it, He hath no understanding?

אִם־ 'im- “<if>?”

Dost thou not know, hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not nor tireth? There is no searching of his understanding.

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Wherefore did I come, and there was no man? I called, and there was none to answer? Is my hand at all shortened that I cannot redeem, or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make rivers a wilderness; their fish stink because there is no water, and die for thirst.

וְאִם־ (אִם) 'im- “or?”

Jehovah hath sworn by his right hand and by the arm of his strength, I will indeed no more give thy corn [supplied: to be] food for thine enemies; and the sons of the alien shall not drink thy new wine, for which thou hast laboured;

וְאִם־ (אִם) 'im- “if”

Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Can a land be made to bring forth in one day? shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her sons.

אִם־ 'im- “or?”