## Job Chapter 15

###### Job 15:1
[Job 15:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/15:1)

וַ֭יַּעַן אֱלִיפַ֥ז הַֽתֵּימָנִ֗י וַיֹּאמַֽר׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Then answered Elifaz the Temanite, and said,

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Then Elifaz the Temanite raised his voice and said:


###### Job 15:2
[Job 15:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/15:2)

הֶחָכָ֗ם יַעֲנֶ֥ה דַעַת־ר֑וּחַ וִימַלֵּ֖א קָדִ֣ים בִּטְנֽוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Should a wise man utter windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Will the wise man answer vain thoughts and fill his stomach with the east wind?


###### Job 15:3
[Job 15:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/15:3)

הוֹכֵ֣חַ בְּ֭דָבָר לֹ֣א יִסְכּ֑וֹן וּ֝מִלִּ֗ים לֹא־יוֹעִ֥יל בָּֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
To debate what is of no benefit and [to spout] words which are of no avail?


###### Job 15:4
[Job 15:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/15:4)

אַף־אַ֭תָּה תָּפֵ֣ר יִרְאָ֑ה וְתִגְרַ֥ע שִׂ֝יחָ֗ה לִפְנֵי־אֵֽל׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Yea, thou castest off fear, and thou dost slight the prayer that is made before God.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
How much more so do you [(who are exceedingly wise)] abolish fear [of G d] and increase complaint before G d!


###### Job 15:5
[Job 15:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/15:5)

כִּ֤י יְאַלֵּ֣ף עֲוֺנְךָ֣ פִ֑יךָ וְ֝תִבְחַ֗ר לְשׁ֣וֹן עֲרוּמִֽים׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For thy mouth utters thy iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For your sin [i.e., your evil inclination] teaches your mouth [to speak in this manner]; you should have chosen the tongue of the subtle [in wisdom].


###### Job 15:6
[Job 15:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/15:6)

יַרְשִׁיעֲךָ֣ פִ֣יךָ וְלֹא־אָ֑נִי וּ֝שְׂפָתֶ֗יךָ יַעֲנוּ־בָֽךְ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Thy own mouth condemns thee, and not I: yea, thy own lips testify against thee.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[Answer my question and] let your [own] mouth condemn you, and not I, and let your [own] lips testify against you:


###### Job 15:7
[Job 15:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/15:7)

הֲרִאישׁ֣וֹן אָ֭דָם תִּוָּלֵ֑ד וְלִפְנֵ֖י גְבָע֣וֹת חוֹלָֽלְתָּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Were you born first, [before] Adam? Were you created before the hills?


###### Job 15:8
[Job 15:8](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/15:8)

הַבְס֣וֹד אֱל֣וֹהַּ תִּשְׁמָ֑ע וְתִגְרַ֖ע אֵלֶ֣יךָ חׇכְמָֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Dost thou listen in to the council of God, and keep wisdom to thyself?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Have you been privy to the secrets of G d and drawn down [all of] wisdom to yourself?


###### Job 15:9
[Job 15:9](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/15:9)

מַה־יָּ֭דַעְתָּ וְלֹ֣א נֵדָ֑ע תָּ֝בִ֗ין וְֽלֹא־עִמָּ֥נוּ הֽוּא׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
What knowst thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not with us?


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

גַּם־שָׂ֣ב גַּם־יָשִׁ֣ישׁ בָּ֑נוּ כַּבִּ֖יר מֵאָבִ֣יךָ יָמִֽים׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
With us are both the greyheaded and very aged men, much older than thy father.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
There is also a grey one, also an elder, among us, of more [days] than your father.


###### Job 15:11
[Job 15:11](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/15:11)

הַמְעַ֣ט מִ֭מְּךָ תַּנְחוּמ֣וֹת אֵ֑ל וְ֝דָבָ֗ר לָאַ֥ט עִמָּֽךְ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Are the consolations of God too small for thee? or the word which he spoke softly with thee?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Are the consolations of G d [i.e., your earlier good] too little for you, and His graciousness to you?


###### Job 15:12
[Job 15:12](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/15:12)

מַה־יִּקָּחֲךָ֥ לִבֶּ֑ךָ וּֽמַה־יִּרְזְמ֥וּן עֵינֶֽיךָ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Why does thy heart carry thee away? and why do thy eyes wink?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
What does your heart teach you and what do your eyes insinuate


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

כִּֽי־תָשִׁ֣יב אֶל־אֵ֣ל רוּחֶ֑ךָ וְהֹצֵ֖אתָ מִפִּ֣יךָ מִלִּֽין׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
that thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
that you turn your spirit against the L rd and spout words [against Him]?


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

מָה־אֱנ֥וֹשׁ כִּֽי־יִזְכֶּ֑ה וְכִי־יִ֝צְדַּ֗ק יְל֣וּד אִשָּֽׁה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
What is man, that he should be clean? and one born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
What is [(the power of)] man that he can be pure [(before the L rd)]? Can one born of woman be righteous?


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

הֵ֣ן בִּ֭קְדֹשָׁו לֹ֣א יַאֲמִ֑ין וְ֝שָׁמַ֗יִם לֹא־זַכּ֥וּ בְעֵינָֽיו׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones; and the heavens are not clean in his sight:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
In His angels He puts no permanence and the [hosts of] heaven are not pure in His eyes.


###### Job 15:16
[Job 15:16](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/15:16)

אַ֭ף כִּי־נִתְעָ֥ב וְֽנֶאֱלָ֑ח אִישׁ־שֹׁתֶ֖ה כַמַּ֣יִם עַוְלָֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
how much less one who is abominable and filthy? man, who drinks iniquity like water?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
How much more so man, who is despised and abhorrent, who drinks wrong as he does water!


###### Job 15:17
[Job 15:17](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/15:17)

אֲחַוְךָ֥ שְֽׁמַֽע־לִ֑י וְזֶֽה־חָ֝זִ֗יתִי וַאֲסַפֵּֽרָה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
I will tell thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
I will tell you something; listen to me. This is what I have seen, and I will tell it to you:


###### Job 15:18
[Job 15:18](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/15:18)

אֲשֶׁר־חֲכָמִ֥ים יַגִּ֑ידוּ וְלֹ֥א כִ֝חֲד֗וּ מֵאֲבוֹתָֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hidden it:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
The wise tell [i.e., they confess their offenses] and do not conceal [their sins] from their fathers.


###### Job 15:19
[Job 15:19](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/15:19)

לָהֶ֣ם לְ֭בַדָּם נִתְּנָ֣ה הָאָ֑רֶץ וְלֹא־עָ֖בַר זָ֣ר בְּתוֹכָֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
to whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
To them alone [(Judah and Reuven, by their respective confessions)] was the earth given and no stranger intruded among them.


###### Job 15:20
[Job 15:20](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/15:20)

כׇּל־יְמֵ֣י רָ֭שָׁע ה֣וּא מִתְחוֹלֵ֑ל וּמִסְפַּ֥ר שָׁ֝נִ֗ים נִצְפְּנ֥וּ לֶעָרִֽיץ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
The wicked man travails with pain all his days, through the number of years stored up for the tyrant.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[But] all the days of the wicked one [(who does not repent and confess)], he laments, [fearing] the number of years [of punishment] laid up for the tyrant.


###### Job 15:21
[Job 15:21](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/15:21)

קוֹל־פְּחָדִ֥ים בְּאׇזְנָ֑יו בַּ֝שָּׁל֗וֹם שׁוֹדֵ֥ד יְבוֹאֶֽנּוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
The voice of fear is in his ears [(saying: "The time of my recompense has come")], and in the midst of peace robbers will come upon him.


###### Job 15:22
[Job 15:22](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/15:22)

לֹא־יַאֲמִ֣ין שׁ֭וּב מִנִּי־חֹ֑שֶׁךְ (וצפו) [וְצָפ֖וּי] ה֣וּא אֱלֵי־חָֽרֶב׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is waited for by the sword.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[(In the abundance of his sins)] he will not believe [that] he can return from the darkness [of Gehinnom], and he is consigned to the sword


###### Job 15:23
[Job 15:23](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/15:23)

נֹ֘דֵ֤ד ה֣וּא לַלֶּ֣חֶם אַיֵּ֑ה יָדַ֓ע**׀** כִּי־נָכ֖וֹן בְּיָד֣וֹ יֽוֹם־חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
and to wander in search of bread. He knows [for a certainty] that the day of darkness is readied for him.


###### Job 15:24
[Job 15:24](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/15:24)

יְֽ֭בַעֲתֻהוּ צַ֣ר וּמְצוּקָ֑ה תִּ֝תְקְפֵ֗הוּ כְּמֶ֤לֶךְ**׀** עָתִ֬יד לַכִּידֽוֹר׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Trouble and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Woe and affliction will confound him. He will be overpowered by it like the king [(Sancherev)] consigned to the fire [of Gehinnom (viz. Isaiah 30:33)].


###### Job 15:25
[Job 15:25](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/15:25)

כִּֽי־נָטָ֣ה אֶל־אֵ֣ל יָד֑וֹ וְאֶל־שַׁ֝דַּ֗י יִתְגַּבָּֽר׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For he stretches out his hand against God, and behaves proudly against the Almighty.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For he has stretched forth his hand against G d and strengthened himself against the Almighty.


###### Job 15:26
[Job 15:26](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/15:26)

יָר֣וּץ אֵלָ֣יו בְּצַוָּ֑אר בַּ֝עֲבִ֗י גַּבֵּ֥י מָגִנָּֽיו׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
He runs upon him with neck armour, with the thick bosses of his bucklers:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
He has run against Him [(to anger Him)] with outstretched neck, [trusting] in the thickness [and] the height of his shields [i.e., trusting in his strength].


###### Job 15:27
[Job 15:27](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/15:27)

כִּֽי־כִסָּ֣ה פָנָ֣יו בְּחֶלְבּ֑וֹ וַיַּ֖עַשׂ פִּימָ֣ה עֲלֵי־כָֽסֶל׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
because he has covered his face with his fat, and has put collops of fat on his flanks.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For he has covered his face with his fat and has made "mouths" [i.e., folds of fat] upon his ribs.


###### Job 15:28
[Job 15:28](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/15:28)

וַיִּשְׁכּ֤וֹן**׀** עָ֘רִ֤ים נִכְחָד֗וֹת בָּ֭תִּים לֹא־יֵ֣שְׁבוּ לָ֑מוֹ אֲשֶׁ֖ר הִתְעַתְּד֣וּ לְגַלִּֽים׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And [in his pride] he has inhabited waste cities, houses unfit for habitation, which had been relegated to the rubbish heaps.


###### Job 15:29
[Job 15:29](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/15:29)

לֹֽא־יֶ֭עְשַׁר וְלֹא־יָק֣וּם חֵיל֑וֹ וְלֹא־יִטֶּ֖ה לָאָ֣רֶץ מִנְלָֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their produce bend to the earth.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[But] he will not remain wealthy and his riches shall not endure, and their reversion will not turn [from heaven] to earth [i.e., their desires will not be gratified].


###### Job 15:30
[Job 15:30](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/15:30)

לֹֽא־יָס֨וּר**׀** מִנִּי־חֹ֗שֶׁךְ יֹ֭נַקְתּוֹ תְּיַבֵּ֣שׁ שַׁלְהָ֑בֶת וְ֝יָס֗וּר בְּר֣וּחַ פִּֽיו׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
He will not be removed from darkness. The flame will dry up his young branch, and he will be removed [from the world] by the breath of His mouth.


###### Job 15:31
[Job 15:31](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/15:31)

אַל־יַאֲמֵ֣ן בַּשָּׁ֣ו נִתְעָ֑ה כִּי־שָׁ֝֗וְא תִּהְיֶ֥ה תְמוּרָתֽוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself: for vanity shall be his recompense.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Let him who has wandered in vanity not trust [to good], for vanity will be his exchange.


###### Job 15:32
[Job 15:32](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/15:32)

בְּֽלֹא־י֭וֹמוֹ תִּמָּלֵ֑א וְ֝כִפָּת֗וֹ לֹ֣א רַעֲנָֽנָה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Before his time, it [(his "exchange")] will be full [i.e., it will have exhausted itself], and his dome [i.e., his branches] will not be green.


###### Job 15:33
[Job 15:33](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/15:33)

יַחְמֹ֣ס כַּגֶּ֣פֶן בִּסְר֑וֹ וְיַשְׁלֵ֥ךְ כַּ֝זַּ֗יִת נִצָּתֽוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
He shall shake off his unripe grape like the vine, and shall cast off his flower like the olive.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
He will cast off his unripe grapes [i.e., his children] like the vine, and he will shed his bloom like the olive.


###### Job 15:34
[Job 15:34](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/15:34)

כִּֽי־עֲדַ֣ת חָנֵ֣ף גַּלְמ֑וּד וְ֝אֵ֗שׁ אָכְלָ֥ה אׇהֳלֵי־שֹֽׁחַד׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For the company of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For the company of the flatterer will be solitary and the fire [(G d's wrath)] will consume the tents of graft.


###### Job 15:35
[Job 15:35](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/15:35)

הָרֹ֣ה עָ֭מָל וְיָ֣לֹֽד אָ֑וֶן וּ֝בִטְנָ֗ם תָּכִ֥ין מִרְמָֽה׃{פ}

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepares deceit.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
They conceive wrong and beget vanity and their belly spawns deceit.