## Job Chapter 10

###### Job 10:1
[Job 10:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/10:1)

נָֽקְטָ֥ה נַפְשִׁ֗י בְּחַ֫יָּ֥י אֶעֶזְבָ֣ה עָלַ֣י שִׂיחִ֑י אֲ֝דַבְּרָ֗ה בְּמַ֣ר נַפְשִֽׁי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
My soul is weary of my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
My soul wrangles against my life. I shall burden myself with my plaint. I shall speak in the bitterness of my soul.


###### Job 10:2
[Job 10:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/10:2)

אֹמַ֣ר אֶל־אֱ֭לוֹהַּ אַל־תַּרְשִׁיעֵ֑נִי ה֝וֹדִיעֵ֗נִי עַ֣ל מַה־תְּרִיבֵֽנִי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
I will say to God, Do not condemn me; inform why Thou dost contend with me.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
I say to G d: Do not brand me as an evildoer. Tell me what You accuse me of.


###### Job 10:3
[Job 10:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/10:3)

הֲט֤וֹב לְךָ֨**׀** כִּֽי־תַעֲשֹׁ֗ק כִּֽי־תִ֭מְאַס יְגִ֣יעַ כַּפֶּ֑יךָ וְעַל־עֲצַ֖ת רְשָׁעִ֣ים הוֹפָֽעְתָּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Is it good to Thee that Thou shouldst oppress, that Thou shouldst despise the work of Thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Is it pleasing to You that You rob [(the righteous of their righteousness)], that You despise the labor of Your hands, and that You shine upon the counsel of the wicked?


###### Job 10:4
[Job 10:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/10:4)

הַעֵינֵ֣י בָשָׂ֣ר לָ֑ךְ אִם־כִּרְא֖וֹת אֱנ֣וֹשׁ תִּרְאֶֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Hast Thou eyes of flesh? or seest Thou as man sees?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Do You have eyes of flesh [(that You do not distinguish between the righteous and the wicked)] Do You see [only] as mortals do?


###### Job 10:5
[Job 10:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/10:5)

הֲכִימֵ֣י אֱנ֣וֹשׁ יָמֶ֑יךָ אִם־שְׁ֝נוֹתֶ֗יךָ כִּ֣ימֵי גָֽבֶר׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Are Thy days as the days of man? are Thy years as man’s days,

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Are Your days the days of a mortal? Are Your years as the years of a man


###### Job 10:6
[Job 10:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/10:6)

כִּֽי־תְבַקֵּ֥שׁ לַעֲוֺנִ֑י וּֽלְחַטָּאתִ֥י תִדְרֽוֹשׁ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
that Thou inquirest after my iniquity, and searchest after my sin;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
that You seek out my transgression and search out my sin?


###### Job 10:7
[Job 10:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/10:7)

עַֽל־דַּ֭עְתְּךָ כִּֽי־לֹ֣א אֶרְשָׁ֑ע וְאֵ֖ין מִיָּדְךָ֣ מַצִּֽיל׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
although Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of Thy hand?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
You know that I will not be incriminated — but there is no escape from Your hand.


###### Job 10:8
[Job 10:8](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/10:8)

יָדֶ֣יךָ עִ֭צְּבוּנִי וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֑וּנִי יַ֥חַד סָ֝בִ֗יב וַֽתְּבַלְּעֵֽנִי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Thy hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet Thou dost destroy me.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Your hands moulded me and made me, and now [Your hosts (the worms)] come round [me] together and You would swallow me up.


###### Job 10:9
[Job 10:9](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/10:9)

זְכׇר־נָ֭א כִּי־כַחֹ֣מֶר עֲשִׂיתָ֑נִי וְֽאֶל־עָפָ֥ר תְּשִׁיבֵֽנִי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Remember, I beseech Thee, that Thou hast made me like clay; and wilt Thou bring me back to dust?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Remember, now, that You fashioned me as clay, and would You [now] return me to the earth?


###### Job 10:10
[Job 10:10](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/10:10)

הֲלֹ֣א כֶ֭חָלָב תַּתִּיכֵ֑נִי וְ֝כַגְּבִנָּ֗ה תַּקְפִּיאֵֽנִי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Hast Thou not poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Did You not rarefy me as milk [(in the sperm)] and solidify me as cheese?


###### Job 10:11
[Job 10:11](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/10:11)

ע֣וֹר וּ֭בָשָׂר תַּלְבִּישֵׁ֑נִי וּֽבַעֲצָמ֥וֹת וְ֝גִידִ֗ים תְּשֹׂכְכֵֽנִי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast knit me together with bones and sinews.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
You clothed me in skin and flesh, and You covered me with bones and sinews.


###### Job 10:12
[Job 10:12](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/10:12)

חַיִּ֣ים וָ֭חֶסֶד עָשִׂ֣יתָ עִמָּדִ֑י וּ֝פְקֻדָּתְךָ֗ שָֽׁמְרָ֥ה רוּחִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Thou hast granted me life and favour, and Thy providence has preserved my spirit.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Life, through lovingkindness, You bequeathed to me, and Your charge guarded my spirit.


###### Job 10:13
[Job 10:13](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/10:13)

וְ֭אֵלֶּה צָפַ֣נְתָּ בִלְבָבֶ֑ךָ יָ֝דַ֗עְתִּי כִּי־זֹ֥את עִמָּֽךְ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Yet these things hast Thou hidden in thy heart: I know that this is with Thee.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And have You hidden [these things] in Your heart [(in order to destroy me)]? I know that this [(all that I have mentioned)] is with You [(and that You have not forgotten)].


###### Job 10:14
[Job 10:14](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/10:14)

אִם־חָטָ֥אתִי וּשְׁמַרְתָּ֑נִי וּ֝מֵעֲוֺנִ֗י לֹ֣א תְנַקֵּֽנִי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
If I sin, then Thou markest me, and Thou wilt not acquit me from my iniquity.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
If I have sinned, You have guarded me [and overlooked nothing], and You would not cleanse me of my transgression.


###### Job 10:15
[Job 10:15](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/10:15)

אִם־רָשַׁ֡עְתִּי אַלְלַ֬י לִ֗י וְ֭צָדַקְתִּי לֹא־אֶשָּׂ֣א רֹאשִׁ֑י שְׂבַ֥ע קָ֝ל֗וֹן וּרְאֵ֥ה עׇנְיִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
If I be wicked, woe is me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head; for I am filled with disgrace, and I see my affliction.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
If I am wicked, woe unto me! And if I am righteous [(what good is it?)] I cannot hold up my head, sated with shame [as I am] and beholding my affliction.


###### Job 10:16
[Job 10:16](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/10:16)

וְ֭יִגְאֶה כַּשַּׁ֣חַל תְּצוּדֵ֑נִי וְ֝תָשֹׁ֗ב תִּתְפַּלָּא־בִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
If my head is lifted up proudly, Thou huntest me like a lion: and again Thou dost work wonders against me.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[My offense] has grown so great [in Your eyes] that You hunt me as a lion. And You return [day after day], [ever more] exacting [with me].


###### Job 10:17
[Job 10:17](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/10:17)

תְּחַדֵּ֬שׁ עֵדֶ֨יךָ**׀** נֶגְדִּ֗י וְתֶ֣רֶב כַּ֭עַשְׂךָ עִמָּדִ֑י חֲלִיפ֖וֹת וְצָבָ֣א עִמִּֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, and increasest Thy indignation upon me; Thou dost bring fresh armies against me.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
You renew Your witnesses against me [(to bring fresh woes upon me)] and You increase Your anger against me. Changes [(of afflictions)] and set times [for each] are with me.


###### Job 10:18
[Job 10:18](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/10:18)

וְלָ֣מָּה מֵ֭רֶחֶם הֹצֵאתָ֑נִי אֶ֝גְוַ֗ע וְעַ֣יִן לֹֽא־תִרְאֵֽנִי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Why then hast Thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh, that I had perished, and no eye had seen me!

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Why did You take me from the womb? Would that I had died and no eye had seen me!


###### Job 10:19
[Job 10:19](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/10:19)

כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹא־הָיִ֣יתִי אֶהְיֶ֑ה מִ֝בֶּ֗טֶן לַקֶּ֥בֶר אוּבָֽל׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Then it would have been as if I had not been. Would that I had been brought from the stomach to the grave!


###### Job 10:20
[Job 10:20](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/10:20)

הֲלֹֽא־מְעַ֣ט יָמַ֣י (יחדל) [וַחֲדָ֑ל] (ישית) [וְשִׁ֥ית] מִ֝מֶּ֗נִּי וְאַבְלִ֥יגָה מְּעָֽט׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Are my days not few? Desist! Betake Yourself and let me come to myself a little


###### Job 10:21
[Job 10:21](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/10:21)

בְּטֶ֣רֶם אֵ֭לֵךְ וְלֹ֣א אָשׁ֑וּב אֶל־אֶ֖רֶץ חֹ֣שֶׁךְ וְצַלְמָֽוֶת׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Before I go whence I shall not return, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death,

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
before I go — not to return — to the land of darkness and the shadow of death.


###### Job 10:22
[Job 10:22](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/10:22)

אֶ֤רֶץ עֵפָ֨תָה**׀** כְּמ֥וֹ אֹ֗פֶל צַ֭לְמָוֶת וְלֹ֥א סְדָרִ֗ים וַתֹּ֥פַע כְּמוֹ־אֹֽפֶל׃{פ}

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
A land of gloom, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
A land of darkness — like pitch darkness. It is the shadow of death and there are no [diurnal] orders there; and even the light there is like pitch darkness.