## Job Chapter 19

###### Job 19:1
[Job 19:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/19:1)

וַיַּ֥עַן אִיּ֗וֹב וַיֹּאמַֽר׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Then Iyyov answered and said,

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Then Iyyov raised his voice and said:


###### Job 19:2
[Job 19:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/19:2)

עַד־אָ֭נָה תּוֹגְי֣וּן נַפְשִׁ֑י וּֽתְדַכּאוּנַ֥נִי בְמִלִּֽים׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
How long will you vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
How long will you grieve my soul and oppress me with words?


###### Job 19:3
[Job 19:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/19:3)

זֶ֤ה עֶ֣שֶׂר פְּ֭עָמִים תַּכְלִימ֑וּנִי לֹֽא־תֵ֝בֹ֗שׁוּ תַּהְכְּרוּ־לִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
These ten times have you reproached me: you are not ashamed that you slight me.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
You have now shamed me ten times. You have not been ashamed to estrange yourselves from me.


###### Job 19:4
[Job 19:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/19:4)

וְאַף־אׇמְנָ֥ם שָׁגִ֑יתִי אִ֝תִּ֗י תָּלִ֥ין מְשׁוּגָתִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And be it indeed that I have erred, my error remains with myself.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And even if I did go astray, with me [alone] my erring rests [i.e., I alone am smitten for it].


###### Job 19:5
[Job 19:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/19:5)

אִם־אׇ֭מְנָם עָלַ֣י תַּגְדִּ֑ילוּ וְתוֹכִ֥יחוּ עָ֝לַ֗י חֶרְפָּתִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
If, indeed, [I erred], you [only] magnify [my transgression] and throw up my shame to my face.


###### Job 19:6
[Job 19:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/19:6)

דְּֽעוּ־אֵ֭פוֹ כִּֽי־אֱל֣וֹהַּ עִוְּתָ֑נִי וּ֝מְצוּד֗וֹ עָלַ֥י הִקִּֽיף׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
know now that God has overthrown me, and has compassed me with his net.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Know, then, that G d has perverted [my verdict] and that He has cast His net around me.


###### Job 19:7
[Job 19:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/19:7)

הֵ֤ן אֶצְעַ֣ק חָ֭מָס וְלֹ֣א אֵעָנֶ֑ה אֲ֝שַׁוַּ֗ע וְאֵ֣ין מִשְׁפָּֽט׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Behold, I cry out, Violence, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no justice.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
I cry out against the injustice [done me], and I am not answered. I scream and there is no justice.


###### Job 19:8
[Job 19:8](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/19:8)

אׇרְחִ֣י גָ֭דַר וְלֹ֣א אֶעֱב֑וֹר וְעַ֥ל נְ֝תִיבוֹתַ֗י חֹ֣שֶׁךְ יָשִֽׂים׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my paths.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
He has barred my way and I cannot cross, and He has placed darkness upon my paths.


###### Job 19:9
[Job 19:9](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/19:9)

כְּ֭בוֹדִי מֵעָלַ֣י הִפְשִׁ֑יט וַ֝יָּ֗סַר עֲטֶ֣רֶת רֹאשִֽׁי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
He has stripped me of my honor [i.e., my clothing] and removed the crown of my head.


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

יִתְּצֵ֣נִי סָ֭בִיב וָאֵלַ֑ךְ וַיַּסַּ֥ע כָּ֝עֵ֗ץ תִּקְוָתִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
He has destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and my hope he has uprooted like a tree.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
He has smashed me on all sides, and I have gone, and He has uprooted my hope as a tree.


###### Job 19:11
[Job 19:11](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/19:11)

וַיַּ֣חַר עָלַ֣י אַפּ֑וֹ וַיַּחְשְׁבֵ֖נִי ל֣וֹ כְצָרָֽיו׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
He has also kindled his wrath against me, and he counts me to him as one of his enemies.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And He has vented His wrath upon me, accounting me as [one of] His foes.


###### Job 19:12
[Job 19:12](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/19:12)

יַ֤חַד**׀** יָ֘בֹ֤אוּ גְדוּדָ֗יו וַיָּסֹ֣לּוּ עָלַ֣י דַּרְכָּ֑ם וַיַּחֲנ֖וּ סָבִ֣יב לְאׇהֳלִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tent.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
All of His troops [i.e., His afflictions] come together and pave their way against me, and they camp around my tent.


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

אַ֭חַי מֵעָלַ֣י הִרְחִ֑יק וְ֝יֹדְעַ֗י אַךְ־זָ֥רוּ מִמֶּֽנִּי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
He has distanced my brothers from me, and those who knew me have become estranged from me.


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

חָדְל֥וּ קְרוֹבָ֑י וּֽמְיֻדָּעַ֥י שְׁכֵחֽוּנִי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
My close ones are gone, and my familiars have forgotten me.


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

גָּ֘רֵ֤י בֵיתִ֣י וְ֭אַמְהֹתַי לְזָ֣ר תַּחְשְׁבֻ֑נִי נׇ֝כְרִ֗י הָיִ֥יתִי בְעֵינֵיהֶֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
They who dwell in my house, and my womenservants, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
The dwellers in my household and my maidservants have considered me a stranger. I have become a foreigner in their eyes.


###### Job 19:16
[Job 19:16](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/19:16)

לְעַבְדִּ֣י קָ֭רָאתִי וְלֹ֣א יַעֲנֶ֑ה בְּמוֹ־פִ֝֗י אֶתְחַנֶּן־לֽוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
I call my servant, and he gives me no answer; though I entreat him with my mouth.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
I call my servant and he does not answer, [though] I implore him with my mouth.


###### Job 19:17
[Job 19:17](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/19:17)

ר֭וּחִי זָ֣רָה לְאִשְׁתִּ֑י וְ֝חַנֹּתִ֗י לִבְנֵ֥י בִטְנִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
My breath is repulsive to my wife, and my cries to my own children.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
My spirit is strange to my wife, and I implore [(those I have reared in my house as if they were)] the sons of my body.


###### Job 19:18
[Job 19:18](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/19:18)

גַּם־עֲ֭וִילִים מָ֣אֲסוּ בִ֑י אָ֝ק֗וּמָה וַיְדַבְּרוּ־בִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Yea, young children despise me; I arise, and they speak against me.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Even youths despise me. [Though] I rise [(to honor them)], they speak [contemptuously] of me.


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

תִּ֭עֲבוּנִי כׇּל־מְתֵ֣י סוֹדִ֑י וְזֶה־אָ֝הַ֗בְתִּי נֶהְפְּכוּ־בִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
All my trusted friends abhor me: and they whom I love are turned against me.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
All the men of my counsel have abominated me, and these [(the friends)] that I have loved have turned against me.


###### Job 19:20
[Job 19:20](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/19:20)

בְּעוֹרִ֣י וּ֭בִבְשָׂרִי דָּבְקָ֣ה עַצְמִ֑י וָ֝אֶתְמַלְּטָ֗ה בְּע֣וֹר שִׁנָּֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
My bone cleaves to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[(I have become so emaciated that)] my bones have stuck to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped [only] with the skin of my teeth [i.e., only my gums have escaped boils and worms].


###### Job 19:21
[Job 19:21](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/19:21)

חׇנֻּ֬נִי חׇנֻּ֣נִי אַתֶּ֣ם רֵעָ֑י כִּ֥י יַד־אֱ֝ל֗וֹהַּ נָ֣גְעָה בִּֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Pity me, pity me, you, my friends, for the hand of G d has struck me.


###### Job 19:22
[Job 19:22](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/19:22)

לָ֭מָּה תִּרְדְּפֻ֣נִי כְמוֹ־אֵ֑ל וּ֝מִבְּשָׂרִ֗י לֹ֣א תִשְׂבָּֽעוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Why do you, like God, persecute me, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Why do you pursue me as G d [does], and why are you not satisfied with [the afflictions of] my flesh?


###### Job 19:23
[Job 19:23](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/19:23)

מִי־יִתֵּ֣ן אֵ֭פוֹ וְיִכָּתְב֣וּן מִלָּ֑י מִי־יִתֵּ֖ן בַּסֵּ֣פֶר וְיֻחָֽקוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were inscribed in a book!

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Would that my words were written down! Would that they were inscribed in a book!


###### Job 19:24
[Job 19:24](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/19:24)

בְּעֵט־בַּרְזֶ֥ל וְעֹפָ֑רֶת לָ֝עַ֗ד בַּצּ֥וּר יֵחָצְבֽוּן׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
that with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock for ever!

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[Would that] with a pen of iron and with lead they were eternally etched in rock!


###### Job 19:25
[Job 19:25](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/19:25)

וַאֲנִ֣י יָ֭דַעְתִּי גֹּ֣אֲלִי חָ֑י וְ֝אַחֲר֗וֹן עַל־עָפָ֥ר יָקֽוּם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For I know that my avenger lives, and that he who outlives all things, will rise when I shall be dust.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[(reversion to 22)] I know that my Redeemer lives [(and He will requite you for this)] and He will endure after all [men] upon the earth.


###### Job 19:26
[Job 19:26](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/19:26)

וְאַחַ֣ר ע֭וֹרִי נִקְּפוּ־זֹ֑את וּ֝מִבְּשָׂרִ֗י אֶחֱזֶ֥ה אֱלֽוֹהַּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
But whilst I am still in my flesh, though it be after my skin is torn from my body, I would see God:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[(But they pay no heed to my Redeemer, but)] after [the afflictions of] my skin, they have thus tormented [me], and from my flesh I see Judgment.


###### Job 19:27
[Job 19:27](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/19:27)

אֲשֶׁ֤ר אֲנִ֨י**׀** אֶחֱזֶה־לִּ֗י וְעֵינַ֣י רָא֣וּ וְלֹא־זָ֑ר כָּל֖וּ כִלְיֹתַ֣י בְּחֵקִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
that I might see him for myself: that my eyes might behold, and not another: in longing for that my reins are consumed within me.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
What I am aware of within me, and [what] my eyes have seen and not [those of] a stranger is that my kidneys have become consumed in my innards.


###### Job 19:28
[Job 19:28](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/19:28)

כִּ֣י תֹ֭אמְרוּ מַה־נִּרְדׇּף־ל֑וֹ וְשֹׁ֥רֶשׁ דָּ֝בָ֗ר נִמְצָא־בִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And if you should say, Do we indeed persecute him? and is not the root of the matter found in me?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Would it enter your minds to say, "Why should we pursue him?" and [to attempt to discover] the root of the matter [i.e., the cause of the suffering] that I am undergoing?


###### Job 19:29
[Job 19:29](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/19:29)

גּ֤וּרוּ לָכֶ֨ם**׀** מִפְּנֵי־חֶ֗רֶב כִּֽי־חֵ֭מָה עֲוֺנ֣וֹת חָ֑רֶב לְמַ֖עַן תֵּדְע֣וּן (שדין) [שַׁדּֽוּן]׃{פ}

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
be afraid of the sword: for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know that there is judgment.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Fear you, then, the sword; for [unjustified] wrath is [among] the sins [punishable by] the sword; and you will know that there is judgment [in the world].