## Job Chapter 36

###### Job 36:1
[Job 36:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/36:1)

וַיֹּ֥סֶף אֱלִיה֗וּא וַיֹּאמַֽר׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Elihu also proceeded, and said,

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Then Elihu continued and said:


###### Job 36:2
[Job 36:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/36:2)

כַּתַּר־לִ֣י זְ֭עֵיר וַאֲחַוֶּ֑ךָּ כִּ֤י ע֖וֹד לֶאֱל֣וֹהַּ מִלִּֽים׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Suffer me a little, and I will show thee; for I have yet words to speak on God’s behalf.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Bear with me yet awhile and I will speak to you, for there are yet more words in G d's behalf.


###### Job 36:3
[Job 36:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/36:3)

אֶשָּׂ֣א דֵ֭עִי לְמֵרָח֑וֹק וּ֝לְפֹעֲלִ֗י אֶֽתֵּֽן־צֶֽדֶק׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
I will lift my voice afar, and I will speak righteousness for my Maker.


###### Job 36:4
[Job 36:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/36:4)

כִּֽי־אׇ֭מְנָם לֹא־שֶׁ֣קֶר מִלָּ֑י תְּמִ֖ים דֵּע֣וֹת עִמָּֽךְ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For truly my words are not false: one that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For, in truth, my words are not false. [(I will now begin speaking with you)] you who think yourself whole in thought.


###### Job 36:5
[Job 36:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/36:5)

הֶן־אֵ֣ל כַּ֭בִּיר וְלֹ֣א יִמְאָ֑ס כַּ֝בִּ֗יר כֹּ֣חַֽ לֵֽב׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Behold, God is mighty, and despises not any: he is mighty in strength of wisdom.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Behold, G d is great [in wisdom and in mercy], and He will not despise [the poor man]. He is great in strength of heart [(to take revenge) and]


###### Job 36:6
[Job 36:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/36:6)

לֹא־יְחַיֶּ֥ה רָשָׁ֑ע וּמִשְׁפַּ֖ט עֲנִיִּ֣ים יִתֵּֽן׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
He preserves not the life of the wicked: but gives to the poor their right.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
He will not keep the wicked in life and will provide the fare of the poor.


###### Job 36:7
[Job 36:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/36:7)

לֹֽא־יִגְרַ֥ע מִצַּדִּ֗יק עֵ֫ינָ֥יו וְאֶת־מְלָכִ֥ים לַכִּסֵּ֑א וַיֹּשִׁיבֵ֥ם לָ֝נֶ֗צַח וַיִּגְבָּֽהוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
He withdraws not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings on the throne he establishes them for ever, and they are exalted.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
He will not remove His eyes from the righteous one until [he is raised] with kings to the throne; and He enthrones them and exalts them for all eternity.


###### Job 36:8
[Job 36:8](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/36:8)

וְאִם־אֲסוּרִ֥ים בַּזִּקִּ֑ים יִ֝לָּכְד֗וּן בְּחַבְלֵי־עֹֽנִי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And if they are bound in fetters, and are held in cords of affliction;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And if they are [sometimes] tied in chains or constricted in bonds of poverty,


###### Job 36:9
[Job 36:9](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/36:9)

וַיַּגֵּ֣ד לָהֶ֣ם פׇּעֳלָ֑ם וּ֝פִשְׁעֵיהֶ֗ם כִּ֣י יִתְגַּבָּֽרוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
then he declares to them their work, and their transgressions when they behave arrogantly.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
He [thereby] tells them [of] their deeds [i.e., their sins] and of their offenses, which have intensified.


###### Job 36:10
[Job 36:10](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/36:10)

וַיִּ֣גֶל אׇ֭זְנָם לַמּוּסָ֑ר וַ֝יֹּ֗אמֶר כִּֽי־יְשׁוּב֥וּן מֵאָֽוֶן׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
He opens also their ear to discipline, and commands that they return from iniquity.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And He [thereby] opens their ear to chastisement and tells them to repent of wrongdoing.


###### Job 36:11
[Job 36:11](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/36:11)

אִֽם־יִשְׁמְע֗וּ וְֽיַ֫עֲבֹ֥דוּ יְכַלּ֣וּ יְמֵיהֶ֣ם בַּטּ֑וֹב וּ֝שְׁנֵיהֶ֗ם בַּנְּעִימִֽים׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
If they listen and [resume] serving [G d], they will complete their days in goodness and their years in pleasantness.


###### Job 36:12
[Job 36:12](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/36:12)

וְאִם־לֹ֣א יִ֭שְׁמְעוּ בְּשֶׁ֣לַח יַעֲבֹ֑רוּ וְ֝יִגְוְע֗וּ בִּבְלִי־דָֽעַת׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
But if they do not obey, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And if they do not listen, they will pass [from the world] by the sword, and they will perish through their lack of understanding.


###### Job 36:13
[Job 36:13](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/36:13)

וְֽחַנְפֵי־לֵ֭ב יָשִׂ֣ימוּ אָ֑ף לֹ֥א יְ֝שַׁוְּע֗וּ כִּ֣י אֲסָרָֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they do not cry when he binds them.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
But those who pander to their desires will fume [(at their afflictions)] and will not cry out [to G d] when He afflicts them.


###### Job 36:14
[Job 36:14](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/36:14)

תָּמֹ֣ת בַּנֹּ֣עַר נַפְשָׁ֑ם וְ֝חַיָּתָ֗ם בַּקְּדֵשִֽׁים׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
They die in youth, and their life ends in shame.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Their soul will die in their extremity and their spirit will expire with the fornicators.


###### Job 36:15
[Job 36:15](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/36:15)

יְחַלֵּ֣ץ עָנִ֣י בְעׇנְי֑וֹ וְיִ֖גֶל בַּלַּ֣חַץ אׇזְנָֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
He delivers the poor by means of his affliction, and opens their ears by oppression.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
He rescues the afflicted one [(from Gehinnom)] by His afflictions and opens their ear — [(saying: "Return to Me")] — by [His] pressure [upon them].


###### Job 36:16
[Job 36:16](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/36:16)

וְאַ֤ף הֲסִֽיתְךָ֨**׀** מִפִּי־צָ֗ר רַ֭חַב לֹא־מוּצָ֣ק תַּחְתֶּ֑יהָ וְנַ֥חַת שֻׁ֝לְחָנְךָ֗ מָ֣לֵא דָֽשֶׁן׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
He has even removed thee out of distress into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which is set on thy table is full of fatness.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And He has moved you, too, away from the narrow mouth [of Gehinnom], [and] whose bottom is broad and not constricted [(so that its smoke collect in its midst)], and what will lie upon your table [(in the world to come)] will be full of "fatness."


###### Job 36:17
[Job 36:17](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/36:17)

וְדִין־רָשָׁ֥ע מָלֵ֑אתָ דִּ֖ין וּמִשְׁפָּ֣ט יִתְמֹֽכוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And if you have been filled with the afflictions of the wicked, affliction and judgment [(i.e., those very afflictions)] will protect you [from Gehinnom (and should be accepted with love)].


###### Job 36:18
[Job 36:18](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/36:18)

כִּֽי־חֵ֭מָה פֶּן־יְסִֽיתְךָ֣ בְסָ֑פֶק וְרׇב־כֹּ֝֗פֶר אַל־יַטֶּֽךָּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
But beware of wrath, lest he take thee away with his clenched fist: nor let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For great wrath [will] befall you] if it [(your evil inclination)] entices you [to sin] through your railings [against G d].


###### Job 36:19
[Job 36:19](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/36:19)

הֲיַעֲרֹ֣ךְ שׁ֭וּעֲךָ לֹ֣א בְצָ֑ר וְ֝כֹ֗ל מַאֲמַצֵּי־כֹֽחַ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Will thy riches avail, that are without stint, or all the forces of thy strength?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Would you set up an outcry so that no afflictions [befall you] and [so that you undergo] no exertions? [How, then, will your "account" be rendered up?]


###### Job 36:20
[Job 36:20](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/36:20)

אַל־תִּשְׁאַ֥ף הַלָּ֑יְלָה לַעֲל֖וֹת עַמִּ֣ים תַּחְתָּֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[And] do not aspire [to different afflictions,] to the night [which came to Amrafel, Egypt, and Sancherev, in which] nations were removed [from the world, while they remained] in their place [(for they thereby went lost in this world and in the world to come)].


###### Job 36:21
[Job 36:21](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/36:21)

הִ֭שָּׁמֶר אַל־תֵּ֣פֶן אֶל־אָ֑וֶן כִּֽי־עַל־זֶ֝֗ה בָּחַ֥רְתָּ מֵעֹֽנִי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Take heed, do not turn to poverty [(i.e., Do not contend that not these afflictions but those of poverty should have been brought upon you)], for these are preferable to [those of] poverty.


###### Job 36:22
[Job 36:22](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/36:22)

הֶן־אֵ֭ל יַשְׂגִּ֣יב בְּכֹח֑וֹ מִ֖י כָמֹ֣הוּ מוֹרֶֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Behold, God is exalted by his power: who teaches like him?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Behold, [because] G d is supreme in His might, who, as He does, teaches a sinner [(to repent, warning him beforehand of the afflictions he will suffer otherwise, knowing that they cannot be forestalled by man's power)]?


###### Job 36:23
[Job 36:23](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/36:23)

מִֽי־פָקַ֣ד עָלָ֣יו דַּרְכּ֑וֹ וּמִי־אָ֝מַ֗ר פָּעַ֥לְתָּ עַוְלָֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Who has enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Who [ever] appointed His way for him, and who [ever] told Him: "You have done wrong"?


###### Job 36:24
[Job 36:24](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/36:24)

זְ֭כֹר כִּֽי־תַשְׂגִּ֣יא פׇעֳל֑וֹ אֲשֶׁ֖ר שֹׁרְר֣וּ אֲנָשִֽׁים׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Remember [His ways] and you will praise His works, which men have seen.


###### Job 36:25
[Job 36:25](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/36:25)

כׇּל־אָדָ֥ם חָזוּ־ב֑וֹ אֱ֝נ֗וֹשׁ יַבִּ֥יט מֵרָחֽוֹק׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
All men have beheld it [(what He has wrought)]; man has seen it from afar [(from creation until now)].


###### Job 36:26
[Job 36:26](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/36:26)

הֶן־אֵ֣ל שַׂ֭גִּיא וְלֹ֣א נֵדָ֑ע מִסְפַּ֖ר שָׁנָ֣יו וְלֹא־חֵֽקֶר׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Behold, God is great, and we know it not, nor can the number of his years be searched out.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
G d is exalted and we cannot know [His greatness], and the number of His years [is unfathomable] and cannot be probed [(wherefore, man must gain his knowledge from those who came before him)].


###### Job 36:27
[Job 36:27](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/36:27)

כִּ֭י יְגָרַ֣ע נִטְפֵי־מָ֑יִם יָזֹ֖קּוּ מָטָ֣ר לְאֵדֽוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
When he draws up small drops of water, they are distilled into a stream of rain;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
When He increases [the number of] drops of water, they [(the firmaments)] pour rain into His cloud.


###### Job 36:28
[Job 36:28](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/36:28)

אֲשֶֽׁר־יִזְּל֥וּ שְׁחָקִ֑ים יִ֝רְעֲפ֗וּ עֲלֵ֤י**׀** אָדָ֬ם רָֽב׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
which the clouds do drop and pour down on man abundantly.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And sometimes the heights will drip; they will drip by virtue of a great man.


###### Job 36:29
[Job 36:29](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/36:29)

אַ֣ף אִם־יָ֭בִין מִפְרְשֵׂי־עָ֑ב תְּ֝שֻׁא֗וֹת סֻכָּתֽוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Can anyone understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Or, will a man understand the spreading out of a cloud, the mist of His pavilion?


###### Job 36:30
[Job 36:30](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/36:30)

הֵן־פָּרַ֣שׂ עָלָ֣יו אוֹר֑וֹ וְשׇׁרְשֵׁ֖י הַיָּ֣ם כִּסָּֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Behold, he spreads his light about him, and covers the roots of the sea.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
He spreads His rain upon it [(the cloud)] and covers up the roots of the sea [with it].


###### Job 36:31
[Job 36:31](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/36:31)

כִּֽי־בָ֭ם יָדִ֣ין עַמִּ֑ים יִֽתֶּן־אֹ֥כֶל לְמַכְבִּֽיר׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For by these he judges the peoples; he gives food in abundance.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For with them [(the clouds)] He judges nations [(by withholding rain)] and [(by releasing rain)] provides food for one who abounds [(in children)].


###### Job 36:32
[Job 36:32](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/36:32)

עַל־כַּפַּ֥יִם כִּסָּה־א֑וֹר וַיְצַ֖ו עָלֶ֣יהָ בְמַפְגִּֽיעַ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it where it shall strike.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
On the clouds the rain is stopped, and He commands it [to fall] through the prayer [(of the great man of the generation)].


###### Job 36:33
[Job 36:33](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/36:33)

יַגִּ֣יד עָלָ֣יו רֵע֑וֹ מִ֝קְנֶ֗ה אַ֣ף עַל־עוֹלֶֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
The noise of the storm tells of it; yea the cattle also of the rising tempest.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[Sometimes] its thunder presages it [(rain)], but the accession of anger [(of the L rd against the wicked)] surmounts it [(and it does not fall)].