## Job Chapter 13

###### Job 13:1
[Job 13:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/13:1)

הֶן־כֹּ֭ל רָאֲתָ֣ה עֵינִ֑י שָֽׁמְעָ֥ה אׇ֝זְנִ֗י וַתָּ֥בֶן לָֽהּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
All of these things my eyes have seen and my ears have heard, and they have understood.


###### Job 13:2
[Job 13:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/13:2)

כְּֽ֭דַעְתְּכֶם יָדַ֣עְתִּי גַם־אָ֑נִי לֹֽא־נֹפֵ֖ל אָנֹכִ֣י מִכֶּֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
What you know, I know also: I am not inferior to you.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
As well as you know, I know. I, too, am no less than you.


###### Job 13:3
[Job 13:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/13:3)

אוּלָ֗ם אֲ֭נִי אֶל־שַׁדַּ֣י אֲדַבֵּ֑ר וְהוֹכֵ֖חַ אֶל־אֵ֣ל אֶחְפָּֽץ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Yet, I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
But I would speak with the Almighty and my desire is to dispute with the L rd.


###### Job 13:4
[Job 13:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/13:4)

וְֽאוּלָ֗ם אַתֶּ֥ם טֹפְלֵי־שָׁ֑קֶר רֹפְאֵ֖י אֱלִ֣ל כֻּלְּכֶֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
But you are forgers of lies, you are all physicians of no value.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
But you are compounders of falsehood; you are all healers of vanity.


###### Job 13:5
[Job 13:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/13:5)

מִי־יִ֭תֵּן הַחֲרֵ֣שׁ תַּחֲרִישׁ֑וּן וּתְהִ֖י לָכֶ֣ם לְחׇכְמָֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
O that you would altogether keep silent! and it should be your wisdom.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Would that you kept still so that you would be accounted wise!


###### Job 13:6
[Job 13:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/13:6)

שִׁמְעוּ־נָ֥א תוֹכַחְתִּ֑י וְרִב֖וֹת שְׂפָתַ֣י הַקְשִֽׁיבוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Hear, now, my dispute, and give ear to the arguments of my lips.


###### Job 13:7
[Job 13:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/13:7)

הַ֭לְאֵל תְּדַבְּר֣וּ עַוְלָ֑ה וְ֝ל֗וֹ תְּֽדַבְּר֥וּ רְמִיָּֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Will you speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Will you speak wrong on behalf of G d? Will you speak deceit on His behalf?


###### Job 13:8
[Job 13:8](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/13:8)

הֲפָנָ֥יו תִּשָּׂא֑וּן אִם־לָאֵ֥ל תְּרִיבֽוּן׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Will you show him partiality? will you contend on behalf of God?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Will you be partial for Him? Will you argue [deceitfully] for G d?


###### Job 13:9
[Job 13:9](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/13:9)

הֲ֭טוֹב כִּֽי־יַחְקֹ֣ר אֶתְכֶ֑ם אִם־כְּהָתֵ֥ל בֶּ֝אֱנ֗וֹשׁ תְּהָתֵ֥לּוּ בֽוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Will it be well for you if he should search you out? or as one man deceives another, will you deceive him?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Will it be good when He probes you [and find you liars]? Will you mock Him as one mocks a man [(saying: "For Your honor we have made ourselves liars"?)]


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

הוֹכֵ֣חַ יוֹכִ֣יחַ אֶתְכֶ֑ם אִם־בַּ֝סֵּ֗תֶר פָּנִ֥ים תִּשָּׂאֽוּן׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
He will surely reprove you, if you secretly show partiality.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
He will reprove you [(for your partiality)]. Will you be partial to Him in secret [i.e., when you stand before Him in judgment for your partiality]?


###### Job 13:11
[Job 13:11](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/13:11)

הֲלֹ֣א שְׂ֭אֵתוֹ תְּבַעֵ֣ת אֶתְכֶ֑ם וּ֝פַחְדּ֗וֹ יִפֹּ֥ל עֲלֵיכֶֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Shall not his majesty make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Will His majesty not confound you and His fright not fall upon you?


###### Job 13:12
[Job 13:12](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/13:12)

זִֽ֭כְרֹנֵיכֶם מִשְׁלֵי־אֵ֑פֶר לְגַבֵּי־חֹ֝֗מֶר גַּבֵּיכֶֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Your remembrances are like ashes; your bodies are like bodies of clay.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Your memories are like [the memory of] dust; your heights are like dust to Him.


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

הַחֲרִ֣ישׁוּ מִ֭מֶּנִּי וַאֲדַבְּרָה־אָ֑נִי וְיַעֲבֹ֖ר עָלַ֣י מָֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Leave off speaking against me, and let me speak, and let there come upon me what may.


###### Job 13:14
[Job 13:14](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/13:14)

עַל־מָ֤ה**׀** אֶשָּׂ֣א בְשָׂרִ֣י בְשִׁנָּ֑י וְ֝נַפְשִׁ֗י אָשִׂ֥ים בְּכַפִּֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For what? I will take my flesh in my teeth, and take my life in my hand.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Why should I hold my flesh in my teeth [(to force myself to silence)] and place [i.e., offer up] my life in my palm?


###### Job 13:15
[Job 13:15](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/13:15)

הֵ֣ן יִ֭קְטְלֵנִי (לא) [ל֣וֹ] אֲיַחֵ֑ל אַךְ־דְּ֝רָכַ֗י אֶל־פָּנָ֥יו אוֹכִֽיחַ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain my own ways before him.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Though He slay me, I will trust in Him, but I would argue my ways to His face [(to know whereof He accuses me)].


###### Job 13:16
[Job 13:16](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/13:16)

גַּם־הוּא־לִ֥י לִישׁוּעָ֑ה כִּי־לֹ֥א לְ֝פָנָ֗יו חָנֵ֥ף יָבֽוֹא׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
This also shall be my salvation: for a hypocrite shall not come before him.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[(And as I am wholehearted with Him)], He, likewise, will be my salvation; for a flatterer [(such as you)] will not come before Him.


###### Job 13:17
[Job 13:17](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/13:17)

שִׁמְע֣וּ שָׁ֭מוֹעַ מִלָּתִ֑י וְ֝אַחֲוָתִ֗י בְּאׇזְנֵיכֶֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Hear diligently my speech, and let my declaration be in your ears.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Hear, then, my words, and let my speech enter your ears.


###### Job 13:18
[Job 13:18](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/13:18)

הִנֵּה־נָ֭א עָרַ֣כְתִּי מִשְׁפָּ֑ט יָ֝דַ֗עְתִּי כִּי־אֲנִ֥י אֶצְדָּֽק׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be vindicated.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
I have prepared my defense; I know that I will be vindicated.


###### Job 13:19
[Job 13:19](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/13:19)

מִי־ה֭וּא יָרִ֣יב עִמָּדִ֑י כִּֽי־עַתָּ֖ה אַחֲרִ֣ישׁ וְאֶגְוָֽע׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Who is he that will contend with me? for then I would hold my tongue and die.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Who would dispute with me? If I kept quiet now, I would expire.


###### Job 13:20
[Job 13:20](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/13:20)

אַךְ־שְׁ֭תַּיִם אַל־תַּ֣עַשׂ עִמָּדִ֑י אָ֥ז מִ֝פָּנֶ֗יךָ לֹ֣א אֶסָּתֵֽר׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Only do not two things to me: then will I not hide myself from Thee.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Just two things do not do to me, and then I will not hide from Your face:


###### Job 13:21
[Job 13:21](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/13:21)

כַּ֭פְּךָ מֵעָלַ֣י הַרְחַ֑ק וְ֝אֵ֥מָתְךָ֗ אַֽל־תְּבַעֲתַֽנִּי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Withdraw Thy hand far from me: and let not Thy terror make me afraid.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Keep Your compulsion far from me, and let Your terror not confound me.


###### Job 13:22
[Job 13:22](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/13:22)

וּ֭קְרָא וְאָנֹכִ֣י אֶעֱנֶ֑ה אֽוֹ־אֲ֝דַבֵּ֗ר וַהֲשִׁיבֵֽנִי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Then call Thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and Thou answer me.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Then call and I will answer, or I shall speak and You answer me.


###### Job 13:23
[Job 13:23](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/13:23)

כַּמָּ֣ה לִ֭י עֲוֺנ֣וֹת וְחַטָּא֑וֹת פִּֽשְׁעִ֥י וְ֝חַטָּאתִ֗י הֹדִיעֵֽנִי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
How many are my iniquities and sins? let me know my transgression and my sin.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
How many are my transgressions and my sins? Make known to me my offenses and my sins.


###### Job 13:24
[Job 13:24](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/13:24)

לָֽמָּה־פָנֶ֥יךָ תַסְתִּ֑יר וְתַחְשְׁבֵ֖נִי לְאוֹיֵ֣ב לָֽךְ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Why dost Thou hide Thy face, and hold me for Thy enemy?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Why do You hide Your face [(from seeing My uprightness)] and reckon me Your foe?


###### Job 13:25
[Job 13:25](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/13:25)

הֶעָלֶ֣ה נִדָּ֣ף תַּעֲר֑וֹץ וְאֶת־קַ֖שׁ יָבֵ֣שׁ תִּרְדֹּֽף׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Wilt Thou chase a driven leaf? and wilt Thou pursue the dry stubble?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Will You affright a shriveled leaf? Will You pursue dry stubble?


###### Job 13:26
[Job 13:26](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/13:26)

כִּֽי־תִכְתֹּ֣ב עָלַ֣י מְרֹר֑וֹת וְ֝תוֹרִישֵׁ֗נִי עֲוֺנ֥וֹת נְעוּרָֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For Thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me inherit the iniquities of my youth.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For You write down my contrariness against me [(and not the good that I have done)] and You make me inherit the sins of my youth.


###### Job 13:27
[Job 13:27](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/13:27)

וְתָ֘שֵׂ֤ם בַּסַּ֨ד**׀** רַגְלַ֗י וְתִשְׁמ֥וֹר כׇּל־אׇרְחוֹתָ֑י עַל־שׇׁרְשֵׁ֥י רַ֝גְלַ֗י תִּתְחַקֶּֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly at all my paths; Thou settest Thy print upon the heels of my feet.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And You put my feet in stocks and guard all my ways. You engrave my [very] footsteps for Yourself [("Here he stepped and thus he did.")]


###### Job 13:28
[Job 13:28](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/13:28)

וְ֭הוּא כְּרָקָ֣ב יִבְלֶ֑ה כְּ֝בֶ֗גֶד אֲכָ֣לוֹ עָֽשׁ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And he is consumed like rottenness; like a garment eaten by moths.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
But is it [(the body)] not like decaying rottenness, like a moth-eaten garment? [i.e., it is not to Your honor to pursue it so.]