## Job Chapter 38

###### Job 38:1
[Job 38:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:1)

וַיַּעַן־יְהֹוָ֣ה אֶת־אִ֭יּוֹב (מנהסערה) [מִ֥ן׀הַסְּעָרָ֗ה] וַיֹּאמַֽר׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Then the Lord answered Iyyov out of the storm wind, and said,

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Then the L rd answered Iyyov from the tempest and said:


###### Job 38:2
[Job 38:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:2)

מִ֤י זֶ֨ה**׀** מַחְשִׁ֖יךְ עֵצָ֥ה בְמִלִּ֗ין בְּֽלִי־דָֽעַת׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Who is it that darkens counsel with words void of knowledge?


###### Job 38:3
[Job 38:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:3)

אֱזׇר־נָ֣א כְגֶ֣בֶר חֲלָצֶ֑יךָ וְ֝אֶשְׁאָלְךָ֗ וְהוֹדִיעֵֽנִי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and let me know thy answer.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Gird, now, your loins like a man. I shall question you, and you answer Me.


###### Job 38:4
[Job 38:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:4)

אֵיפֹ֣ה הָ֭יִיתָ בְּיׇסְדִי־אָ֑רֶץ הַ֝גֵּ֗ד אִם־יָדַ֥עְתָּ בִינָֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Where were you when I founded the earth? Answer, if you possess understanding.


###### Job 38:5
[Job 38:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:5)

מִי־שָׂ֣ם מְ֭מַדֶּיהָ כִּ֣י תֵדָ֑ע א֤וֹ מִֽי־נָטָ֖ה עָלֶ֣יהָ קָּֽו׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Who determined its measurements, if thou knowst? or who has stretched the line upon it?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Who established its measurements — if you know. Who stretched a plumb line over it?


###### Job 38:6
[Job 38:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:6)

עַל־מָ֭ה אֲדָנֶ֣יהָ הׇטְבָּ֑עוּ א֥וֹ מִי־יָ֝רָ֗ה אֶ֣בֶן פִּנָּתָֽהּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
whereupon are its foundations fastened? or who laid its corner stone;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
On what were its foundations sunk? Who cast its cornerstone [(in the middle of the sea, whence the entire world was founded)]?


###### Job 38:7
[Job 38:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:7)

בְּרׇן־יַ֭חַד כּ֣וֹכְבֵי בֹ֑קֶר וַ֝יָּרִ֗יעוּ כׇּל־בְּנֵ֥י אֱלֹהִֽים׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[Where were you] when the stars of morning sang together [(at the creation)] and all the men of G d [(the angels)] shouted?


###### Job 38:8
[Job 38:8](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:8)

וַיָּ֣סֶךְ בִּדְלָתַ֣יִם יָ֑ם בְּ֝גִיח֗וֹ מֵרֶ֥חֶם יֵצֵֽא׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, and issued out of the womb?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And [who] barred the sea with doors [(the shore sands)] when it gushed forth to leave its womb?


###### Job 38:9
[Job 38:9](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:9)

בְּשׂוּמִ֣י עָנָ֣ן לְבֻשׁ֑וֹ וַ֝עֲרָפֶ֗ל חֲתֻלָּתֽוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
when I made the cloud its garment, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it,

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[Where were you] when I made the cloud its [(the sea's)] garment and the mist its swaddling cloth?


###### Job 38:10
[Job 38:10](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:10)

וָאֶשְׁבֹּ֣ר עָלָ֣יו חֻקִּ֑י וָ֝אָשִׂ֗ים בְּרִ֣יחַ וּדְלָתָֽיִם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
and prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors,

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
I broke My statute upon it [i.e., I placed breakers around it to contain it] and made bar and doors [for it].


###### Job 38:11
[Job 38:11](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:11)

וָאֹמַ֗ר עַד־פֹּ֣ה תָ֭בוֹא וְלֹ֣א תֹסִ֑יף וּפֹא־יָ֝שִׁ֗ית בִּגְא֥וֹן גַּלֶּֽיךָ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
and said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And I said: "Until here you may come, and no further; and here you may lift your waves in pride."


###### Job 38:12
[Job 38:12](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:12)

הֲֽ֭מִיָּמֶיךָ צִוִּ֣יתָ בֹּ֑קֶר (ידעתה שחר) [יִדַּ֖עְתָּ הַשַּׁ֣חַר] מְקֹמֽוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days began; and caused the dayspring to know its place;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Did you ever command the sun? Do you know the [resting] place of [the herald of] the morning?


###### Job 38:13
[Job 38:13](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:13)

לֶ֭אֱחֹז בְּכַנְפ֣וֹת הָאָ֑רֶץ וְיִנָּעֲר֖וּ רְשָׁעִ֣ים מִמֶּֽנָּה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[Did you ever command one] to hold the ends of the earth [like a garment] and to shake the wicked out of it [(as I am destined to do)]?


###### Job 38:14
[Job 38:14](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:14)

תִּ֭תְהַפֵּךְ כְּחֹ֣מֶר חוֹתָ֑ם וְ֝יִֽתְיַצְּב֗וּ כְּמ֣וֹ לְבֽוּשׁ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
It is changed like clay under the seal; and they stand as a garment.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[Do you command] that the seal [(a man's countenance)] be transformed [in the grave] like clay, and that they stand [fully] clothed [at the resurrection]?


###### Job 38:15
[Job 38:15](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:15)

וְיִמָּנַ֣ע מֵרְשָׁעִ֣ים אוֹרָ֑ם וּזְר֥וֹעַ רָ֝מָ֗ה תִּשָּׁבֵֽר׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the high arm shall be broken.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[At that time] their light will be withheld from the wicked and the upraised arm will be broken.


###### Job 38:16
[Job 38:16](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:16)

הֲ֭בָאתָ עַד־נִבְכֵי־יָ֑ם וּבְחֵ֥קֶר תְּ֝ה֗וֹם הִתְהַלָּֽכְתָּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the recesses of the depth?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Did you reach the enclosures of the sea, and did you go around probing the deep?


###### Job 38:17
[Job 38:17](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:17)

הֲנִגְל֣וּ לְ֭ךָ שַׁעֲרֵי־מָ֑וֶת וְשַׁעֲרֵ֖י צַלְמָ֣וֶת תִּרְאֶֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
have the gates of death been opened to thee? or hast thou seen the doors of deepest darkness?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Were the gates of death [(Gehinnom)] revealed to you, and did you see the gates of the shadow of death?


###### Job 38:18
[Job 38:18](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:18)

הִ֭תְבֹּנַנְתָּ עַד־רַחֲבֵי־אָ֑רֶץ הַ֝גֵּ֗ד אִם־יָדַ֥עְתָּ כֻלָּֽהּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
hast thou comprehended the expanse of the earth? declare if thou knowst it all.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Have you probed into the far reaches of the earth? Speak if you know it all.


###### Job 38:19
[Job 38:19](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:19)

אֵי־זֶ֣ה הַ֭דֶּרֶךְ יִשְׁכׇּן־א֑וֹר וְ֝חֹ֗שֶׁךְ אֵי־זֶ֥ה מְקֹמֽוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Where is the way where light dwells? and as for darkness, where is its place,

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Where is the road to the dwelling of light, and where is the place of darkness


###### Job 38:20
[Job 38:20](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:20)

כִּ֣י תִ֭קָּחֶנּוּ אֶל־גְּבוּל֑וֹ וְכִי־תָ֝בִ֗ין נְתִיב֥וֹת בֵּיתֽוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
that thou shouldst take it to its bound, and that thou shouldst know the paths to its home?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
that you could take it [(the light)] to its [(darkness's] boundary and that you could know the paths to its house [to bring light there]?


###### Job 38:21
[Job 38:21](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:21)

יָ֭דַעְתָּ כִּי־אָ֣ז תִּוָּלֵ֑ד וּמִסְפַּ֖ר יָמֶ֣יךָ רַבִּֽים׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Thou knowst it because thou wast then born, and the number of thy days is great.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[(sarcastically: Surely,)] you know [all these things], for you were born then [(when I created them)] and the number of your days are many!


###### Job 38:22
[Job 38:22](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:22)

הֲ֭בָאתָ אֶל־אֹצְר֣וֹת שָׁ֑לֶג וְאוֹצְר֖וֹת בָּרָ֣ד תִּרְאֶֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Hast thou entered the treasuries of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasuries of the hail,

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Did you come to the treasures of snow and did you see the treasures of hail,


###### Job 38:23
[Job 38:23](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:23)

אֲשֶׁר־חָשַׂ֥כְתִּי לְעֶת־צָ֑ר לְי֥וֹם קְ֝רָ֗ב וּמִלְחָמָֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
which I saved for a time of trouble [(with the five kings of Giveon)], for a time of battle and war [(the war of Gog and Magog)].


###### Job 38:24
[Job 38:24](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:24)

אֵי־זֶ֣ה הַ֭דֶּרֶךְ יֵחָ֣לֶק א֑וֹר יָפֵ֖ץ קָדִ֣ים עֲלֵי־אָֽרֶץ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
By what way is the light parted, or the east wind scattered upon the earth?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
What is the way that the light [of the sun] is parted, [the way that] the [sun of the] east spreads [itself] over the earth?


###### Job 38:25
[Job 38:25](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:25)

מִֽי־פִלַּ֣ג לַשֶּׁ֣טֶף תְּעָלָ֑ה וְ֝דֶ֗רֶךְ לַחֲזִ֥יז קֹלֽוֹת׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
who has divided a watercourse for the torrent of rain, or a way for the lightning of thunder;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Who cut out a basin for the hair [(each hair having its own follicle)] and a path for the sounds [i.e., the thunder peals] of the rain clouds [(each peal having its own track)]


###### Job 38:26
[Job 38:26](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:26)

לְ֭הַמְטִיר עַל־אֶ֣רֶץ לֹא־אִ֑ישׁ מִ֝דְבָּ֗ר לֹא־אָדָ֥ם בּֽוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
to cause it to rain on a land where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
to bring rain upon a land where there is no man, upon a desert, where no man dwells,


###### Job 38:27
[Job 38:27](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:27)

לְהַשְׂבִּ֣יעַ שֹׁ֭אָה וּמְשֹׁאָ֑ה וּ֝לְהַצְמִ֗יחַ מֹ֣צָא דֶֽשֶׁא׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
to satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
to sate the darkness [i.e., the drought] and the waste and to cause the source of grass to sprout?


###### Job 38:28
[Job 38:28](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:28)

הֲיֵשׁ־לַמָּטָ֥ר אָ֑ב א֥וֹ מִי־ה֝וֹלִ֗יד אֶגְלֵי־טָֽל׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Has the rain a father? or who has begotten the drops of dew?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Does the rain have a father? And who begot the waves of dew?


###### Job 38:29
[Job 38:29](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:29)

מִבֶּ֣טֶן מִ֭י יָצָ֣א הַקָּ֑רַח וּכְפֹ֥ר שָׁ֝מַ֗יִם מִ֣י יְלָדֽוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoar frost of heaven, who has given it birth?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
From whose stomach did the ice come forth, and who gave birth to the heavenly frost?


###### Job 38:30
[Job 38:30](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:30)

כָּ֭אֶבֶן מַ֣יִם יִתְחַבָּ֑אוּ וּפְנֵ֥י תְ֝ה֗וֹם יִתְלַכָּֽדוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
The waters are hidden as with a stone, and the face of the deep forms a solid mass.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Like a stone, the waters hide [beneath the ice] and the [waters on] the face of the deep cling together.


###### Job 38:31
[Job 38:31](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:31)

הַֽ֭תְקַשֵּׁר מַעֲדַנּ֣וֹת כִּימָ֑ה אֽוֹ־מֹשְׁכ֖וֹת כְּסִ֣יל תְּפַתֵּֽחַ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Canst thou bind the chains of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Would you tie the bonds of the Pleiades [(to keep the world from freezing)] or undo the cords of Orion [(to warm the Pleiades thereby)]?


###### Job 38:32
[Job 38:32](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:32)

הֲתֹצִ֣יא מַזָּר֣וֹת בְּעִתּ֑וֹ וְ֝עַ֗יִשׁ עַל־בָּנֶ֥יהָ תַנְחֵֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
canst thou bring forth Mazzarot in their season? or canst thou guide the Bear with his sons?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Would you bring out the stars in their proper time and lead forth the Bear with its sons?


###### Job 38:33
[Job 38:33](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:33)

הֲ֭יָדַעְתָּ חֻקּ֣וֹת שָׁמָ֑יִם אִם־תָּשִׂ֖ים מִשְׁטָר֣וֹ בָאָֽרֶץ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
knowst thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou establish its dominion in the earth?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Do you know the statutes of the heavens [.e., the ordinance of the stars (in producing cold and heat, winter and summer)]? Can you establish its rule [i.e., the function of each star] upon the earth?


###### Job 38:34
[Job 38:34](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:34)

הֲתָרִ֣ים לָעָ֣ב קוֹלֶ֑ךָ וְֽשִׁפְעַת־מַ֥יִם תְּכַסֶּֽךָּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Would you raise your voice to the cloud and be covered by an outpouring of water?


###### Job 38:35
[Job 38:35](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:35)

הַֽתְשַׁלַּ֣ח בְּרָקִ֣ים וְיֵלֵ֑כוּ וְיֹאמְר֖וּ לְךָ֣ הִנֵּֽנוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say to thee, Here we are?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Would you send out lightnings that they go forth [in the place where they have been sent to, without needing to return] to say to you: "Here we are" [i.e., we have done your bidding (the Shechinah being omnipresent)]?


###### Job 38:36
[Job 38:36](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:36)

מִי־שָׁ֭ת בַּטֻּח֣וֹת חׇכְמָ֑ה א֤וֹ מִֽי־נָתַ֖ן לַשֶּׂ֣כְוִי בִינָֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? or who has given understanding to the birds?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Who places wisdom in the kidneys, or who deposits understanding in the heart?


###### Job 38:37
[Job 38:37](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:37)

מִֽי־יְסַפֵּ֣ר שְׁחָקִ֣ים בְּחׇכְמָ֑ה וְנִבְלֵ֥י שָׁ֝מַ֗יִם מִ֣י יַשְׁכִּֽיב׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
who can number the clouds by wisdom? or who can refill the bottles of heaven,

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Who charges the heights with wisdom, and who lays down the flagons of the sky [(the clouds)]


###### Job 38:38
[Job 38:38](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:38)

בְּצֶ֣קֶת עָ֭פָר לַמּוּצָ֑ק וּרְגָבִ֥ים יְדֻבָּֽקוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
when the dust grows into a mass, and the clods cleave fast together?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[(as I did at the creation)] when the dust was spilled out into a mold and the clods congealed [(for the creation of the world)]?


###### Job 38:39
[Job 38:39](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:39)

הֲתָצ֣וּד לְלָבִ֣יא טָ֑רֶף וְחַיַּ֖ת כְּפִירִ֣ים תְּמַלֵּֽא׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Would you hunt prey for the lion or sate the spirit of the young lion?


###### Job 38:40
[Job 38:40](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:40)

כִּֽי־יָשֹׁ֥חוּ בַמְּעוֹנ֑וֹת יֵשְׁב֖וּ בַסֻּכָּ֣ה לְמוֹ־אָֽרֶב׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
when they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For they crouch in their lairs; they wait under cover for the ambush.


###### Job 38:41
[Job 38:41](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/38:41)

מִ֤י יָכִ֥ין לָעֹרֵ֗ב צֵ֫יד֥וֹ כִּֽי־יְ֭לָדָו אֶל־אֵ֣ל יְשַׁוֵּ֑עוּ יִ֝תְע֗וּ לִבְלִי־אֹֽכֶל׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Who provides for the raven his provision? when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Who prepares his prey for the raven? For his young cry out to G d [(their father forsaking them)]. They stray, without food [(and G d Himself provides for them)].