## Job Chapter 17

###### Job 17:1
[Job 17:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/17:1)

רוּחִ֣י חֻ֭בָּלָה יָמַ֥י נִזְעָ֗כוּ קְבָרִ֥ים לִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
My spirit is broken, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
My spirit has been destroyed. My days have leapt away. Graves await me


###### Job 17:2
[Job 17:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/17:2)

אִם־לֹ֣א הֲ֭תֻלִים עִמָּדִ֑י וּ֝בְהַמְּרוֹתָ֗ם תָּלַ֥ן עֵינִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Are there not mockers with me? and does not my eye dwell on their provocation?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
even without mockers against me and my eyes constantly looking on at their taunting.


###### Job 17:3
[Job 17:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/17:3)

שִֽׂימָה־נָּ֭א עׇרְבֵ֣נִי עִמָּ֑ךְ מִ֥י ה֝֗וּא לְיָדִ֥י יִתָּקֵֽעַ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself: who else is there that will strike hands with me?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Give [heart] to me, I pray You. Give me surety [(by "handshake") to dispute] with You. [For] who is there [among them] to shake my hand [(in friendship)]?


###### Job 17:4
[Job 17:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/17:4)

כִּֽי־לִ֭בָּם צָפַ֣נְתָּ מִשָּׂ֑כֶל עַל־כֵּ֝֗ן לֹ֣א תְרֹמֵֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For You have hid their hearts from wisdom, wherefore You will not be exalted [through them].


###### Job 17:5
[Job 17:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/17:5)

לְ֭חֵלֶק יַגִּ֣יד רֵעִ֑ים וְעֵינֵ֖י בָנָ֣יו תִּכְלֶֽנָה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
They are as one who invites friends to have a share, whilst the eyes of his children fail.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Friends will flatter each other and [(as a result)] the eyes of their sons will fail.


###### Job 17:6
[Job 17:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/17:6)

וְֽ֭הִצִּיגַנִי לִמְשֹׁ֣ל עַמִּ֑ים וְתֹ֖פֶת לְפָנִ֣ים אֶהְיֶֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
He has made me also a byword of the peoples; and I shall be a horror to every face.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[(This would be my dispute with the L rd:)] He has set me up as a parable for the peoples. I am become a mockery to [their] faces.


###### Job 17:7
[Job 17:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/17:7)

וַתֵּ֣כַהּ מִכַּ֣עַשׂ עֵינִ֑י וִיצֻרַ֖י כַּצֵּ֣ל כֻּלָּֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
My eye also is dim by reason of vexation, and all my members are as a shadow.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
My eye is dimmed with anger and all of my limbs are like shadows.


###### Job 17:8
[Job 17:8](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/17:8)

יָשֹׁ֣מּוּ יְשָׁרִ֣ים עַל־זֹ֑את וְ֝נָקִ֗י עַל־חָנֵ֥ף יִתְעֹרָֽר׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Upright men are astonished at this, and the innocent stirs up himself against the godless.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Let the upright be astounded over this, and let the clean one [(hearing of these mockeries)] be aroused against the flatterer.


###### Job 17:9
[Job 17:9](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/17:9)

וְיֹאחֵ֣ז צַדִּ֣יק דַּרְכּ֑וֹ וּֽטְהׇר־יָ֝דַ֗יִם יֹסִ֥יף אֹֽמֶץ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Yet the righteous holds on his way, and he that has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And let the righteous one hold fast to his way [(to oppose the flatterers)] and [let] the pure of hand add courage.


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

וְֽאוּלָ֗ם כֻּלָּ֣ם תָּ֭שֻׁבוּ וּבֹ֣אוּ נָ֑א וְלֹֽא־אֶמְצָ֖א בָכֶ֣ם חָכָֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
But as for you all, return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
But all of you [(my friends)] turn about and come now [(to learn the truth)]; but I find no wise one among you [(in your mocking of my plaint)].


###### Job 17:11
[Job 17:11](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/17:11)

יָמַ֣י עָ֭בְרוּ זִמֹּתַ֣י נִתְּק֑וּ מ֖וֹרָשֵׁ֣י לְבָבִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
My days [(of good)] have passed; my thoughts [(my expectations of continued good)] have been cut off, the bequests of my heart.


###### Job 17:12
[Job 17:12](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/17:12)

לַ֭יְלָה לְי֣וֹם יָשִׂ֑ימוּ א֝֗וֹר קָר֥וֹב מִפְּנֵי־חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
They change the night into day, saying, The light is near when the darkness is at hand.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
They [(their mockeries)] change day to night. The light [of the day seems] short [to me] because of the darkness [(of my afflictions)].


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

אִם־אֲ֭קַוֶּה שְׁא֣וֹל בֵּיתִ֑י בַּ֝חֹ֗שֶׁךְ רִפַּ֥דְתִּי יְצוּעָֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
If I look to She᾽ol as my home: if I spread my couch in the darkness:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Since I hope for the pit as my home, I have spread my bed in darkness [i.e., the grave].


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

לַשַּׁ֣חַת קָ֭רָאתִי אָ֣בִי אָ֑תָּה אִמִּ֥י וַ֝אֲחֹתִ֗י לָרִמָּֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
if I say to the pit, Thou art my father; to the worm. Thou art my mother and my sister;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
To the pit I have called: "You are my father"; "my mother" and "my sister" to the worms.


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

וְ֭אַיֵּה אֵפ֣וֹ תִקְוָתִ֑י וְ֝תִקְוָתִ֗י מִ֣י יְשׁוּרֶֽנָּה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
where then is my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Where is [(the realization of)] my hope, and who will see my hope [(to hurry it to me)]?


###### Job 17:16
[Job 17:16](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/17:16)

בַּדֵּ֣י שְׁאֹ֣ל תֵּרַ֑דְנָה אִם־יַ֖חַד עַל־עָפָ֣ר נָֽחַת׃{פ}

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Will they go down with me to the bars of She᾽ol? shall we descend together to the dust?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Would that they [(my limbs)] which [are destined to] descend to the pit would [(soon)] lie on the dust [in death]!