## Job Chapter 27

###### Job 27:1
[Job 27:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/27:1)

וַיֹּ֣סֶף אִ֭יּוֹב שְׂאֵ֥ת מְשָׁל֗וֹ וַיֹּאמַֽר׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And Iyyov continued his discourse, and said,

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Then Iyyov continued — raising his voice in parable — and he said:


###### Job 27:2
[Job 27:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/27:2)

חַי־אֵ֭ל הֵסִ֣יר מִשְׁפָּטִ֑י וְ֝שַׁדַּ֗י הֵמַ֥ר נַפְשִֽׁי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
As God lives, who has taken away my right; and the Almighty, who has embittered my soul;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[I swear] As G d lives, He has cast aside my judgment, and, [as] the Almighty [lives], He has embittered my spirit.


###### Job 27:3
[Job 27:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/27:3)

כִּי־כׇל־ע֣וֹד נִשְׁמָתִ֣י בִ֑י וְר֖וּחַ אֱל֣וֹהַּ בְּאַפִּֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
all the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For as long as my spirit is in me and the breath of G d is in my nostrils,


###### Job 27:4
[Job 27:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/27:4)

אִם־תְּדַבֵּ֣רְנָה שְׂפָתַ֣י עַוְלָ֑ה וּ֝לְשׁוֹנִ֗י אִם־יֶהְגֶּ֥ה רְמִיָּֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
my lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[may this oath be upon me] if my lips speak wrongly or my tongue utters deceit.


###### Job 27:5
[Job 27:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/27:5)

חָלִ֣ילָה לִּי֮ אִם־אַצְדִּ֢יק אֶ֫תְכֶ֥ם עַד־אֶגְוָ֑ע לֹֽא־אָסִ֖יר תֻּמָּתִ֣י מִמֶּֽנִּי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Far be it from me that I should justify you: till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[G d] forbid that I should justify you [(in your incrimination of me)]. Until I die, I shall not disavow my innocence.


###### Job 27:6
[Job 27:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/27:6)

בְּצִדְקָתִ֣י הֶ֭חֱזַקְתִּי וְלֹ֣א אַרְפֶּ֑הָ לֹא־יֶחֱרַ֥ף לְ֝בָבִ֗י מִיָּמָֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
My righteousness I hold fast, and I will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me as long as I live.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
I have persisted in my righteousness and not grown slack. My heart never reproached [me for my conduct] all of my days.


###### Job 27:7
[Job 27:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/27:7)

יְהִ֣י כְ֭רָשָׁע אֹ֣יְבִ֑י וּמִתְקוֹמְמִ֥י כְעַוָּֽל׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Let my enemy be as the wicked, and he who rises up against me as the unrighteous.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[Perforce,] it is my foe who is the evildoer, and he who rises against me, the wrongdoer.


###### Job 27:8
[Job 27:8](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/27:8)

כִּ֤י מַה־תִּקְוַ֣ת חָ֭נֵף כִּ֣י יִבְצָ֑ע כִּ֤י יֵ֖שֶׁל אֱל֣וֹהַּ נַפְשֽׁוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when God takes away his soul?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For what is the hope of the flatterer who robs, when G d casts away his soul?


###### Job 27:9
[Job 27:9](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/27:9)

הֲֽ֭צַעֲקָתוֹ יִשְׁמַ֥ע׀אֵ֑ל כִּֽי־תָב֖וֹא עָלָ֣יו צָרָֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Will G d hear his outcry when trouble comes upon him?


###### Job 27:10
[Job 27:10](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/27:10)

אִם־עַל־שַׁדַּ֥י יִתְעַנָּ֑ג יִקְרָ֖א אֱל֣וֹהַּ בְּכׇל־עֵֽת׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Will he delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon G d at all times?


###### Job 27:11
[Job 27:11](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/27:11)

אוֹרֶ֣ה אֶתְכֶ֣ם בְּיַד־אֵ֑ל אֲשֶׁ֥ר עִם־שַׁ֝דַּ֗י לֹ֣א אֲכַחֵֽד׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
I will teach you concerning the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
I will teach you what [(mode of conduct)] is in the hand of G d. I will not conceal what resides with the Almighty.


###### Job 27:12
[Job 27:12](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/27:12)

הֵן־אַתֶּ֣ם כֻּלְּכֶ֣ם חֲזִיתֶ֑ם וְלָמָּה־זֶּ֝֗ה הֶ֣בֶל תֶּהְבָּֽלוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Behold, all you yourselves have seen it; why then do you thus altogether breathe emptiness?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
In truth, all of you have seen [viz. verse 13, etc.]. Why, then, do you pursue vanity [(being evildoers and flatterers)]?


###### Job 27:13
[Job 27:13](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/27:13)

זֶ֤ה**׀** חֵלֶק־אָדָ֖ם רָשָׁ֥ע׀עִם־אֵ֑ל וְֽנַחֲלַ֥ת עָ֝רִיצִ֗ים מִשַּׁדַּ֥י יִקָּֽחוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
This [(as you have seen)] is the portion of the wicked man, which is reposited with G d, and the inheritance that the tyrants will take from the Almighty.


###### Job 27:14
[Job 27:14](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/27:14)

אִם־יִרְבּ֣וּ בָנָ֣יו לְמוֹ־חָ֑רֶב וְ֝צֶאֱצָאָ֗יו לֹ֣א יִשְׂבְּעוּ־לָֽחֶם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Though his sons increase, they are for the sword, and his descendants will not be sated with bread.


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

שְׂ֭רִידָו בַּמָּ֣וֶת יִקָּבֵ֑רוּ וְ֝אַלְמְנֹתָ֗יו לֹ֣א תִבְכֶּֽינָה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Those that remain of him shall be buried by some other death: and his widows shall not weep.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Those that are left to him, in death [(after terrible afflictions)] will be buried, and his widows will not mourn them, [(seeing their death as a "reprieve")].


###### Job 27:16
[Job 27:16](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/27:16)

אִם־יִצְבֹּ֣ר כֶּעָפָ֣ר כָּ֑סֶף וְ֝כַחֹ֗מֶר יָכִ֥ין מַלְבּֽוּשׁ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
He may amass silver as dust and store up raiment as clay.


###### Job 27:17
[Job 27:17](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/27:17)

יָ֭כִין וְצַדִּ֣יק יִלְבָּ֑שׁ וְ֝כֶ֗סֶף נָקִ֥י יַחֲלֹֽק׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
He may store it up, but the righteous one will wear it, and He will apportion the silver [to] the innocent one.


###### Job 27:18
[Job 27:18](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/27:18)

בָּנָ֣ה כָעָ֣שׁ בֵּית֑וֹ וּ֝כְסֻכָּ֗ה עָשָׂ֥ה נֹצֵֽר׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
He builds his house like the moth, and as a booth which the watchman makes.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
He has built his house [(to come down)] as that of a moth and as a booth made by a watcher.


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

עָשִׁ֣יר יִ֭שְׁכַּב וְלֹ֣א יֵאָסֵ֑ף עֵינָ֖יו פָּקַ֣ח וְאֵינֶֽנּוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
A rich man shall he lie down, as though his wealth could not be summed up: he opens his eyes, and it is gone.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
He dies rich and [sometimes] he is not [even] gathered up [for burial]. He opens his eyes and he is gone.


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

תַּשִּׂיגֵ֣הוּ כַ֭מַּיִם בַּלָּה֑וֹת לַ֝֗יְלָה גְּנָבַ֥תּוּ סוּפָֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Terrors overtake him like waters; a tempest steals him away in the night.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Terrors seize him as a torrent. At night he is spirited away by a whirlwind.


###### Job 27:21
[Job 27:21](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/27:21)

יִשָּׂאֵ֣הוּ קָדִ֣ים וְיֵלַ֑ךְ וִ֝ישָׂעֲרֵ֗הוּ מִמְּקֹמֽוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
The east wind carries him away, and he departs: and it hurts him out of his place.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
The east wind lifts him up and he goes, and it sweeps him from his place.


###### Job 27:22
[Job 27:22](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/27:22)

וְיַשְׁלֵ֣ךְ עָ֭לָיו וְלֹ֣א יַחְמֹ֑ל מִ֝יָּד֗וֹ בָּר֥וֹחַ יִבְרָֽח׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
It hurls itself at him, and does not spare: he would fain flee out of its hand.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[Men] heap [evil] upon him and have no mercy. [His former friends] flee from him.


###### Job 27:23
[Job 27:23](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/27:23)

יִשְׂפֹּ֣ק עָלֵ֣ימוֹ כַפֵּ֑ימוֹ וְיִשְׁרֹ֥ק עָ֝לָ֗יו מִמְּקֹמֽוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Men smite their palms over him [(in dismay at his downfall)], and they whistle over him in his place.