## Job Chapter 14

###### Job 14:1
[Job 14:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/14:1)

אָ֭דָם יְל֣וּד אִשָּׁ֑ה קְצַ֥ר יָ֝מִ֗ים וּֽשְׂבַֽע־רֹֽגֶז׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[Is not] man born of woman, short of days and full of vexation?


###### Job 14:2
[Job 14:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/14:2)

כְּצִ֣יץ יָ֭צָא וַיִּמָּ֑ל וַיִּבְרַ֥ח כַּ֝צֵּ֗ל וְלֹ֣א יַעֲמֽוֹד׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also like a shadow, and does not endure.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
As a blossom that blows and is cut off, fleeting as a shadow that does not stand.


###### Job 14:3
[Job 14:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/14:3)

אַף־עַל־זֶ֭ה פָּקַ֣חְתָּ עֵינֶ֑ךָ וְאֹ֘תִ֤י תָבִ֖יא בְמִשְׁפָּ֣ט עִמָּֽךְ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And dost Thou open Thy eyes upon such a one, and bringest me into judgment with Thee?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
On this, too, You have cast Your eye [in judgment], and [even] me You have brought into judgment with You [(for my sins)].


###### Job 14:4
[Job 14:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/14:4)

מִֽי־יִתֵּ֣ן טָ֭הוֹר מִטָּמֵ֗א לֹ֣א אֶחָֽד׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Can pure [(one wholly free of sin)] emerge from impure? — not one!


###### Job 14:5
[Job 14:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/14:5)

אִ֥ם־חֲרוּצִ֨ים**׀** יָמָ֗יו מִֽסְפַּר־חֳדָשָׁ֥יו אִתָּ֑ךְ חֻקָּ֥ו עָ֝שִׂ֗יתָ וְלֹ֣א יַעֲבֹֽר׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with Thee, Thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[(Is a man not simply requited for his sins)] if his days are circumscribed [(unto death)], if the number of his months is [fixed] with You? You have set his limit, which he cannot pass.


###### Job 14:6
[Job 14:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/14:6)

שְׁעֵ֣ה מֵעָלָ֣יו וְיֶחְדָּ֑ל עַד־יִ֝רְצֶ֗ה כְּשָׂכִ֥יר יוֹמֽוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Leave off [afflicting] him, then, and let it [(his pain)] cease, until as a hired laborer [(who desires the end of his working day)], he desires his day [of death]. [(For there is more finality in his passing than in that of all other things:)]


###### Job 14:7
[Job 14:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/14:7)

כִּ֤י יֵ֥שׁ לָעֵ֗ץ תִּ֫קְוָ֥ה אִֽם־יִ֭כָּרֵת וְע֣וֹד יַחֲלִ֑יף וְ֝יֹנַקְתּ֗וֹ לֹ֣א תֶחְדָּֽל׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its tender branch will not cease.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For a tree has hope, though it is cut off. It will renew itself, and its young branches will not cease.


###### Job 14:8
[Job 14:8](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/14:8)

אִם־יַזְקִ֣ין בָּאָ֣רֶץ שׇׁרְשׁ֑וֹ וּ֝בֶעָפָ֗ר יָמ֥וּת גִּזְעֽוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stock die in the ground;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Though its root grow old in the earth and its stock die in the dust,


###### Job 14:9
[Job 14:9](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/14:9)

מֵרֵ֣יחַ מַ֣יִם יַפְרִ֑חַ וְעָשָׂ֖ה קָצִ֣יר כְּמוֹ־נָֽטַע׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
the [very] scent of water will cause it to bloom, and it will sprout branches like a sapling.


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

וְגֶ֣בֶר יָ֭מוּת וַֽיֶּחֱלָ֑שׁ וַיִּגְוַ֖ע אָדָ֣ם וְאַיּֽוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
But man dies, and is laid low; yea, man perishes, and where is he?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
But when a man dies, he is sapped. When a man expires, where is he?


###### Job 14:11
[Job 14:11](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/14:11)

אָֽזְלוּ־מַ֭יִם מִנִּי־יָ֑ם וְ֝נָהָ֗ר יֶחֱרַ֥ב וְיָבֵֽשׁ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
The waters fail from the sea, and the river is parched, and dries up:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
When the waters leave the sea, will the river [(which comes from the sea)] not be parched, and dry up?


###### Job 14:12
[Job 14:12](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/14:12)

וְאִ֥ישׁ שָׁכַ֗ב וְֽלֹא־יָ֫ק֥וּם עַד־בִּלְתִּ֣י שָׁ֭מַיִם לֹ֣א יָקִ֑יצוּ וְלֹֽא־יֵ֝עֹ֗רוּ מִשְּׁנָתָֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
but man lies down, and does not rise: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
So a man will lie down and not rise. Until the heavens are worn away, they [(men)] will not awaken and they will not rise up from their sleep.


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

מִ֤י יִתֵּ֨ן**׀** בִּשְׁא֬וֹל תַּצְפִּנֵ֗נִי תַּ֭סְתִּירֵנִי עַד־שׁ֣וּב אַפֶּ֑ךָ תָּ֤שִֽׁית־לִ֖י חֹ֣ק וְתִזְכְּרֵֽנִי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
O that Thou wouldst hide me in She᾽ol, that Thou wouldst keep me secret, until Thy wrath is past, that Thou wouldst appoint me a set time, and remember me!

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Would that [(when You were angry with me)] You hid me in the grave, concealed me until Your wrath were turned, set me a time and remembered me.


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

אִם־יָמ֥וּת גֶּ֗בֶר הֲיִֽ֫חְיֶ֥ה כׇּל־יְמֵ֣י צְבָאִ֣י אֲיַחֵ֑ל עַד־בּ֝֗וֹא חֲלִיפָתִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my service I should wait, until my reward should come.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
When a man dies, will he live [again]? Then all the days of my time [on this earth] I would hope [to live] until [the time of] my passing came.


###### Job 14:15
[Job 14:15](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/14:15)

תִּ֭קְרָא וְאָנֹכִ֣י אֶעֱנֶ֑ךָּ לְֽמַעֲשֵׂ֖ה יָדֶ֣יךָ תִכְסֹֽף׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Thou shouldst call, and I would answer Thee: Thou shouldst have a desire to the work of Thy hands.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Call [me (to reprove me)] and I will answer You. Desire the work of Your hands.


###### Job 14:16
[Job 14:16](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/14:16)

כִּֽי־עַ֭תָּה צְעָדַ֣י תִּסְפּ֑וֹר לֹֽא־תִ֝שְׁמֹ֗ר עַל־חַטָּאתִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For now Thou numberest my steps: dost Thou not watch for my sin?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
But now You count [all of] my steps and You do not delay [(the payment)] for my sin.


###### Job 14:17
[Job 14:17](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/14:17)

חָתֻ֣ם בִּצְר֣וֹר פִּשְׁעִ֑י וַ֝תִּטְפֹּ֗ל עַל־עֲוֺנִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and Thou dost daub my iniquity with wax.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
My offense is tied in a knot [(that it not go lost)] and it is joined to my transgression.


###### Job 14:18
[Job 14:18](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/14:18)

וְ֭אוּלָם הַר־נוֹפֵ֣ל יִבּ֑וֹל וְ֝צ֗וּר יֶעְתַּ֥ק מִמְּקֹמֽוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And surely the mountain falling crumbles away, and the rock is removed out of its place.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[Even] a fallen mountain will [crumble and] produce vegetation, as will a rock dislodged from its place.


###### Job 14:19
[Job 14:19](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/14:19)

אֲבָנִ֤ים**׀** שָׁ֥חֲקוּ מַ֗יִם תִּשְׁטֹֽף־סְפִיחֶ֥יהָ עֲפַר־אָ֑רֶץ וְתִקְוַ֖ת אֱנ֣וֹשׁ הֶאֱבַֽדְתָּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
The waters wear the stones: the torrents wash away the dust of the earth; so Thou destroyest the hope of man.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Stones worn down by water — its crumblings are flooded over [to become] dust of the earth [(from which vegetation later sprouts)]. But the hope of man is [completely] lost [with his death].


###### Job 14:20
[Job 14:20](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/14:20)

תִּתְקְפֵ֣הוּ לָ֭נֶצַח וַֽיַּהֲלֹ֑ךְ מְשַׁנֶּ֥ה פָ֝נָ֗יו וַֽתְּשַׁלְּחֵֽהוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passes: Thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
You overpower him for eternity and he passes on. You change his face and send him away.


###### Job 14:21
[Job 14:21](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/14:21)

יִכְבְּד֣וּ בָ֭נָיו וְלֹ֣א יֵדָ֑ע וְ֝יִצְעֲר֗וּ וְֽלֹא־יָבִ֥ין לָֽמוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
His sons come to honour, and he knows it not; and they are brought low, but he perceives them not.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
If his sons are "weighted" [(with wealth)], he will not know it; if they are reduced, he will not perceive it.


###### Job 14:22
[Job 14:22](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/14:22)

אַךְ־בְּ֭שָׂרוֹ עָלָ֣יו יִכְאָ֑ב וְ֝נַפְשׁ֗וֹ עָלָ֥יו תֶּאֱבָֽל׃{פ}

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Only when his flesh is on him does he feel pain, and while his soul is within him does he mourn.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Only the flesh upon him [(fed on by the maggots)] will [(smart in)] pain, and his soul will mourn over him.