H9002–/וְ–v

How forcible are right words! but what doth your upbraiding reprove?

וּמַה־ (וּ) u. “and”

Do ye imagine to reprove words? The speeches of one that is desperate are indeed for the wind.

וּ֝לְר֗וּחַ (וּ֝) u. “and”

Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and dig [ergänzt: a pit] for your friend.

וְ֝תִכְר֗וּ (וְ֝) ve. “and”

Now therefore if ye will, look upon me; and it shall be to your face if I lie.

וְ֭עַתָּה (וְ֭) Ve. “and”וְעַל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Return, I pray you, let there be no wrong; yea, return again, my righteousness shall be in it.

וְשׁ֥וּבוּ (וְ) ve. “and”

Hath not man a life of labour upon earth? and are not his days like the days of a hireling?

וְכִימֵ֖י (וְ) ve. “and”

As a bondman earnestly desireth the shadow, and a hireling expecteth his wages,

וּ֝כְשָׂכִ֗יר (וּ֝) u. “and”

So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

וְלֵיל֥וֹת (וְ) ve. “and”

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and suppurates.

וְג֣וּשׁ (וְ) ve. “and”

The eye of him that hath seen me shall behold me no [ergänzt: more]: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.

וְאֵינֶֽנִּי׃ (וְ) ve. “and”

He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him again.

וְלֹא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions;

וּֽמֵחֶזְיֹנ֥וֹת (וּֽ) u. “and”

What is man, that thou makest much of him? and that thou settest thy heart upon him?

וְכִי־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And why dost not thou forgive my transgression and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I lie down in the dust, and thou shalt seek me early, and I shall not be.

וּמֶ֤ה׀ (וּ) u. “and”וְתַעֲבִ֪יר (וְ) ve. “so”וְאֵינֶֽנִּי׃ (וְ) ve. “and”

How long wilt thou speak these things? and the words of thy mouth be a strong wind?

וְר֥וּחַ (וְ) ve. “and”

Doth God pervert judgment, and the Almighty pervert justice?

וְאִם־ (וְ) ve. “and”

If thou seek earnestly unto God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,

וְאֶל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

If thou be pure and upright, surely now he will awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous;

וְיָשָׁ֗ר (וְ) ve. “and”

And though thy beginning was small, yet thine end shall be very great.

וְ֝אַחֲרִיתְךָ֗ (וְ֝) ve. “and”

For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and attend to the researches of their fathers;

וְ֝כוֹנֵ֗ן (וְ֝) ve. “and”

For we are [ergänzt: but] of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days upon earth are a shadow.

וְלֹ֣א (וְ) ve. “and”

Shall not they teach thee, [ergänzt: and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?

וּ֝מִלִּבָּ֗ם (וּ֝) u. “and”

Whilst it is yet in its greenness [ergänzt: and] not cut down, it withereth before any [ergänzt: other] grass.

וְלִפְנֵ֖י (וְ) ve. “and”

So are the paths of all that forget God; and the profane man's hope shall perish,

וְתִקְוַ֖ת (וְ) ve. “and”

Whose confidence shall be cut off, and his reliance is a spider's web.

וּבֵ֥ית (וּ) u. “and”