H9002–/וְ–v

How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove?

וּמַה־ (וּ) u. “and”

For reproof -- do you reckon words? And for wind -- sayings of the desperate.

וּ֝לְר֗וּחַ (וּ֝) u. “and”

Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.

וְ֝תִכְר֗וּ (וְ֝) ve. “and”

And, now, please, look upon me, Even to your face do I lie?

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

Turn back, I pray you, let it not be perverseness, Yea, turn back again -- my righteousness `is' in it.

וְשׁ֥וּבוּ (וְ) ve. “and”

Is there not a warfare to man on earth? And as the days of an hireling his days?

וְכִימֵ֖י (וְ) ve. “and”

As a servant desireth the shadow, And as a hireling expecteth his wage,

וּ֝כְשָׂכִ֗יר (וּ֝) u. “and”

So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me.

וְלֵיל֥וֹת (וְ) ve. “and”

Clothed hath been my flesh `with' worms, And a clod of dust, My skin hath been shrivelled and is loathsome,

וְג֣וּשׁ (וְ) ve. “and”

The eye of my beholder beholdeth me not. Thine eyes `are' upon me -- and I am not.

וְאֵינֶֽנִּי׃ (וְ) ve. “and”

He turneth not again to his house, Nor doth his place discern him again.

וְלֹא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And thou hast affrighted me with dreams, And from visions thou terrifiest me,

וּֽמֵחֶזְיֹנ֥וֹת (וּֽ) u. “and”

What `is' man that Thou dost magnify him? And that Thou settest unto him Thy heart?

וְכִי־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou hast sought me -- and I am not!

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

Till when dost thou speak these things? And a strong wind -- sayings of thy mouth?

וְר֥וּחַ (וְ) ve. “and”

Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?

וְאִם־ (וְ) ve. “and”

If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,

וְאֶל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

If pure and upright thou `art', Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.

וְיָשָׁ֗ר (וְ) ve. “and”

And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great.

וְ֝אַחֲרִיתְךָ֗ (וְ֝) ve. “and”

For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers,

וְ֝כוֹנֵ֗ן (וְ֝) ve. “and”

(For of yesterday we `are', and we know not, For a shadow `are' our days on earth.)

וְלֹ֣א (וְ) ve. “and”

Do they not shew thee -- speak to thee, And from their heart bring forth words?

וּ֝מִלִּבָּ֗ם (וּ֝) u. “and”

While it `is' in its budding -- uncropt, Even before any herb it withereth.

וְלִפְנֵ֖י (וְ) ve. “and”

So `are' the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,

וְתִקְוַ֖ת (וְ) ve. “and”

Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust.

וּבֵ֥ית (וּ) u. “and”