## Job Chapter 20

###### Job 20:1
[Job 20:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/20:1)

וַ֭יַּעַן צֹפַ֥ר הַֽנַּעֲמָתִ֗י וַיֹּאמַֽר׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Then answered Żofar the Na῾amatite, and said,

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Then Tzofar the Na'amathite raised his voice and said:


###### Job 20:2
[Job 20:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/20:2)

לָ֭כֵן שְׂעִפַּ֣י יְשִׁיב֑וּנִי וּ֝בַעֲב֗וּר ח֣וּשִׁי בִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Therefore my thoughts answer me, even because of my agitation that is in me.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Therefore, my thoughts will make answer for me, for [I have placed] my silence within me.


###### Job 20:3
[Job 20:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/20:3)

מוּסַ֣ר כְּלִמָּתִ֣י אֶשְׁמָ֑ע וְ֝ר֗וּחַ מִֽבִּינָתִ֥י יַעֲנֵֽנִי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
I have heard the censure which insults me, and the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
I hear [from you] the afflictions of my shame [i.e., your shaming of me], and a spirit from my understanding will answer for me.


###### Job 20:4
[Job 20:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/20:4)

הֲזֹ֣את יָ֭דַעְתָּ מִנִּי־עַ֑ד מִנִּ֤י שִׂ֖ים אָדָ֣ם עֲלֵי־אָֽרֶץ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Knowst thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Don't you know this always to have been so, from the time man was put upon the earth —


###### Job 20:5
[Job 20:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/20:5)

כִּ֤י רִנְנַ֣ת רְ֭שָׁעִים מִקָּר֑וֹב וְשִׂמְחַ֖ת חָנֵ֣ף עֲדֵי־רָֽגַע׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
that the rejoicing of the wicked is short-lived and the joy of the flatterer but momentary?


###### Job 20:6
[Job 20:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/20:6)

אִם־יַעֲלֶ֣ה לַשָּׁמַ֣יִם שִׂיא֑וֹ וְ֝רֹאשׁ֗וֹ לָעָ֥ב יַגִּֽיעַ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach the clouds;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Though his height ascends to the heavens and his head reaches the clouds,


###### Job 20:7
[Job 20:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/20:7)

כְּֽ֭גֶלְלוֹ לָנֶ֣צַח יֹאבֵ֑ד רֹ֝אָ֗יו יֹאמְר֥וּ אַיּֽוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they who have seen him shall say, Where is he?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
he will go lost eternally, like his dung. The beholders [(of his former success)] will say: "Where is he?"


###### Job 20:8
[Job 20:8](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/20:8)

כַּחֲל֣וֹם יָ֭עוּף וְלֹ֣א יִמְצָא֑וּהוּ וְ֝יֻדַּ֗ד כְּחֶזְי֥וֹן לָֽיְלָה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
He shall fly away like a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
As a dream he will vanish and they will not find him, and he will depart as a vision of the night.


###### Job 20:9
[Job 20:9](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/20:9)

עַ֣יִן שְׁ֭זָפַתּוּ וְלֹ֣א תוֹסִ֑יף וְלֹֽא־ע֝֗וֹד תְּשׁוּרֶ֥נּוּ מְקוֹמֽוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
The eye which saw him shall see him no more; nor shall his place any more behold him.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
The eye that has seen him will not continue [to do so], and [the people of] his place will see him no more.


###### Job 20:10
[Job 20:10](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/20:10)

בָּ֭נָיו יְרַצּ֣וּ דַלִּ֑ים וְ֝יָדָ֗יו תָּשֵׁ֥בְנָה אוֹנֽוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall give back that which he has robbed.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
His children will conciliate the poor [(whom he has despoiled)] or his [own] hands will return [the plunder of] his strength.


###### Job 20:11
[Job 20:11](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/20:11)

עַ֭צְמוֹתָיו מָלְא֣וּ עֲלוּמָ֑ו וְ֝עִמּ֗וֹ עַל־עָפָ֥ר תִּשְׁכָּֽב׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
His bones are full of his youth; yet shall it lie down with him in the dust.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
His bones are full of [the strength of] his youth, and with him on the dust will it lie [(in his death)].


###### Job 20:12
[Job 20:12](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/20:12)

אִם־תַּמְתִּ֣יק בְּפִ֣יו רָעָ֑ה יַ֝כְחִידֶ֗נָּה תַּ֣חַת לְשֹׁנֽוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[(This is the way of the wicked one:)] If evil [devising] is sweet in his mouth [(and he is prevented from executing it)], he hides it under his tongue.


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

יַחְמֹ֣ל עָ֭לֶיהָ וְלֹ֣א יַעַזְבֶ֑נָּה וְ֝יִמְנָעֶ֗נָּה בְּת֣וֹךְ חִכּֽוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
He is solicitous of it and will not let it go, and he holds it back in his palate.


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

לַ֭חְמוֹ בְּמֵעָ֣יו נֶהְפָּ֑ךְ מְרוֹרַ֖ת פְּתָנִ֣ים בְּקִרְבּֽוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
yet his food in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[(On the day of his downfall)] the food turns around in his stomach — the gall of serpents is within him!


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

חַ֣יִל בָּ֭לַע וַיְקִאֶ֑נּוּ מִ֝בִּטְנ֗וֹ יֹרִשֶׁ֥נּוּ אֵֽל׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[If] he had swallowed wealth, he will regurgitate it; G d will drive it from his stomach


###### Job 20:16
[Job 20:16](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/20:16)

רֹאשׁ־פְּתָנִ֥ים יִינָ֑ק תַּ֝הַרְגֵ֗הוּ לְשׁ֣וֹן אֶפְעֶֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
as it he had sucked the head of serpents. The tongue of an adder will kill him.


###### Job 20:17
[Job 20:17](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/20:17)

אַל־יֵ֥רֶא בִפְלַגּ֑וֹת נַהֲרֵ֥י נַ֝חֲלֵ֗י דְּבַ֣שׁ וְחֶמְאָֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the streams of honey and curd.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
He will not see the streams [of Gan Eden], the flowing rivers of honey and butter.


###### Job 20:18
[Job 20:18](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/20:18)

מֵשִׁ֣יב יָ֭גָע וְלֹ֣א יִבְלָ֑ע כְּחֵ֥יל תְּ֝מוּרָת֗וֹ וְלֹ֣א יַעֲלֹֽס׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
That which he laboured for he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down: from the riches of his trading he will have no enjoyment.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
He will return the toil [of the poor, that he has stolen], and he will not retain it. When his booty reaches its height, [he will be undone and] he will not rejoice [in it].


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

כִּֽי־רִ֭צַּץ עָזַ֣ב דַּלִּ֑ים בַּ֥יִת גָּ֝זַ֗ל וְלֹ֣א יִבְנֵֽהוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; he has violently taken away a house which he did not build;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
After having broken the poor, he left [them] (and was "dispatched" from the world, and they come and claim their property)]. He stole a house, but he will not build [i.e., inhabit] it.


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

כִּ֤י**׀** לֹא־יָדַ֣ע שָׁלֵ֣ו בְּבִטְנ֑וֹ בַּ֝חֲמוּד֗וֹ לֹ֣א יְמַלֵּֽט׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
because his greed knew no rest, he will not save anything over of that which he coveted.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Because his stomach knew no peace, [(always desiring more theft to fill it)], therefore, he will not escape with his "embonpoint" [(but will wither away)].


###### Job 20:21
[Job 20:21](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/20:21)

אֵין־שָׂרִ֥יד לְאׇכְל֑וֹ עַל־כֵּ֝֗ן לֹא־יָחִ֥יל טוּבֽוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
None of his food shall be left; therefore shall his goods not prosper.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
He left nothing over from his meal [(for the poor)]; therefore, his good will not prosper.


###### Job 20:22
[Job 20:22](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/20:22)

בִּמְלֹ֣אות שִׂ֭פְקוֹ יֵ֣צֶר ל֑וֹ כׇּל־יַ֖ד עָמֵ֣ל תְּבֹאֶֽנּוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: all the force of misery shall come upon him.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
When he attains to the fulfillment of his desire, he will be aggrieved. Every laboring hand [i.e., every poor man whom he robbed] will come against him.


###### Job 20:23
[Job 20:23](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/20:23)

יְהִ֤י**׀** לְמַלֵּ֬א בִטְנ֗וֹ יְֽשַׁלַּח־בּ֭וֹ חֲר֣וֹן אַפּ֑וֹ וְיַמְטֵ֥ר עָ֝לֵ֗ימוֹ בִּלְחוּמֽוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him into his flesh.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[His wrath] will be [sufficient] to fill his stomach. He will vent the fury of His wrath upon him, and He will rain down [fire and brimstone] upon him in warring with him.


###### Job 20:24
[Job 20:24](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/20:24)

יִ֭בְרַח מִנֵּ֣שֶׁק בַּרְזֶ֑ל תַּ֝חְלְפֵ֗הוּ קֶ֣שֶׁת נְחוּשָֽׁה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of brass shall strike him through.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
When he runs from iron weapons, a copper bow will pierce him through.


###### Job 20:25
[Job 20:25](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/20:25)

שָׁלַף֮ וַיֵּצֵ֢א מִגֵּ֫וָ֥ה וּ֭בָרָק מִֽמְּרֹרָת֥וֹ יַהֲלֹ֗ךְ עָלָ֥יו אֵמִֽים׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
It is drawn, and comes out of his body; yea, the glittering blade comes out of his gall: terrors are upon him.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
When [the sword] is drawn and it leaves its scabbard, its flash, in its awesomeness, will cast terrors upon him.


###### Job 20:26
[Job 20:26](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/20:26)

כׇּל־חֹשֶׁךְ֮ טָמ֢וּן לִצְפּ֫וּנָ֥יו תְּ֭אׇכְלֵהוּ אֵ֣שׁ לֹא־נֻפָּ֑ח יֵ֖רַע שָׂרִ֣יד בְּאׇהֳלֽוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Utter darkness is laid up for his treasures: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tent.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
All [forms of] darkness are hidden for what lies in store for him. He will be consumed by an unfanned fire [(the fire of Gehinnom)]. Evil will befall what remains in his tent.


###### Job 20:27
[Job 20:27](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/20:27)

יְגַלּ֣וּ שָׁמַ֣יִם עֲוֺנ֑וֹ וְ֝אֶ֗רֶץ מִתְקוֹמָ֘מָ֥ה לֽוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
The heavens will reveal his transgression, and the earth will rise up against him.


###### Job 20:28
[Job 20:28](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/20:28)

יִ֭גֶל יְב֣וּל בֵּית֑וֹ נִ֝גָּר֗וֹת בְּי֣וֹם אַפּֽוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
The produce of his house will go lost. [His treasures will be] swept away on the day of His wrath.


###### Job 20:29
[Job 20:29](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/20:29)

זֶ֤ה**׀** חֵלֶק־אָדָ֣ם רָ֭שָׁע מֵאֱלֹהִ֑ים וְנַחֲלַ֖ת אִמְר֣וֹ מֵאֵֽל׃{פ}

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by God.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
This is the portion of the wicked man and the inheritance foretold for him by the Almighty.