H0518H–אִם–im

As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

וְאִם־ (אִם) 'im- “if”

My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

אִם־ 'im- “if”אִם־ 'im- “if”

Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

אִם־ 'im- “<if>?”

Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just?

וְאִם־ (אִם) 'im- “or?”

Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.

אִֽם־ 'im- “or?”

Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

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

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

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

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

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

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

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

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.

אִֽם־ 'im- “if”

Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

אִם־ 'im- “if”

Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;

אִם־ 'im- “if”אִם־ 'im- “if”

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

אִם־ 'im- “if”

I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

אִם־ 'im- “if”וְֽאִם־ (אִם) 'im- “if”

I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

אִם־ 'im- “if”וְֽאִם־ (אִם) 'im- “if”

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

אִם־ 'im- “if”

Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

אִם־ 'im- “<if>?”

Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.

אִם־ 'im- “or?”

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

וְאִם־ (אִם) 'im- “or?”

The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:

וְאִם־ (אִם) 'im- “if”

Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.

אִם־ 'im- “or?”