H9002–/וְ–v

And the LORD said to Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and shunneth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.

וְיָשָׁ֛ר (וְ) ve. “and”וְסָ֣ר (וְ) ve. “and”וְעֹדֶ֙נּוּ֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, even, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

וְכֹל֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

וְגַ֥ע (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to his crown.

וְעַ֥ד (וְ) ve. “and”

And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself with it; and he sat down among the ashes.

וְה֖וּא (וְ) ve. “and”

Then said his wife to him, Dost thou still retain thy integrity? curse God, and die.

וָמֻֽת׃ (וָ) va. “and”

But he said to her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him, and to comfort him.

וּבִלְדַּ֣ד (וּ) u. “and”וְצוֹפַ֖ר (וְ) ve. “and”וּֽלְנַחֲמֽוֹ׃ (וּֽ) u. “and”

And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they raised their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads towards heaven.

וְלֹ֣א (וְ) ve. “and”

So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

וְשִׁבְעַ֣ת (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֵין־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a mail child conceived.

וְהַלַּ֥יְלָה (וְ) ve. “and”

Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

וְאַל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Let darkness and the shades of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

וְ֭צַלְמָוֶת (וְ֭) Ve. “and”

Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

וָאַ֑יִן (וָ) va. “and”וְאַל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Why died I not from the womb? why did I not expire at the time of my birth?

וְאֶגְוָֽע׃ (וְ) ve. “and”

Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed?

וּמַה־ (וּ) u. “and”

For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

וְאֶשְׁק֑וֹט (וְ) ve. “and”

With kings and counselors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves;

וְיֹ֣עֲצֵי (וְ) ve. “and”

There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest.

וְשָׁ֥ם (וְ) ve. “and”

The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

וְ֭גָדוֹל (וְ֭) Ve. “and”וְ֝עֶ֗בֶד (וְ֝) ve. “and”

Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;

וְ֝חַיִּ֗ים (וְ֝) ve. “and”

Who long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

וְאֵינֶ֑נּוּ (וְ) ve. “and”

For the thing which I greatly feared hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.

וַאֲשֶׁ֥ר (וַ) va. “and”

I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

וְלֹ֖א (וְ) ve. “and”וְֽלֹא־ (וְֽ) ve. “and”

If we essay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can refrain from speaking?

וַעְצֹ֥ר (וַ) va “and”