## Job Chapter 4

###### Job 4:1
[Job 4:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/4:1)

וַ֭יַּעַן אֱלִיפַ֥ז הַֽתֵּימָנִ֗י וַיֹּאמַֽר׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Then Elifaz the Temanite answered and said,

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Then Elifaz the Temanite [(the son of Esav [who, being reared by Isaac, attained to the Holy Spirit])] raised his voice and said:


###### Job 4:2
[Job 4:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/4:2)

הֲנִסָּ֬ה דָבָ֣ר אֵלֶ֣יךָ תִּלְאֶ֑ה וַעְצֹ֥ר בְּ֝מִלִּ֗ין מִ֣י יוּכָֽל׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
If one ventures a word to thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Do you tire with one trial? Who, then, can refrain from rebuttal?


###### Job 4:3
[Job 4:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/4:3)

הִ֭נֵּה יִסַּ֣רְתָּ רַבִּ֑ים וְיָדַ֖יִם רָפ֣וֹת תְּחַזֵּֽק׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Did you not reprove many [who inveighed against the Almighty] and did you not strengthen the hands of those who were weak [in bearing up under the attribute of justice]?


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

כּ֭וֹשֵׁל יְקִימ֣וּן מִלֶּ֑יךָ וּבִרְכַּ֖יִם כֹּרְע֣וֹת תְּאַמֵּֽץ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Thy words have upheld him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Your words would raise the stumbling and you would strengthen the buckling knees.


###### Job 4:5
[Job 4:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/4:5)

כִּ֤י עַתָּ֨ה**׀** תָּב֣וֹא אֵלֶ֣יךָ וַתֵּ֑לֶא תִּגַּ֥ע עָ֝דֶ֗יךָ וַתִּבָּהֵֽל׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
But now it is come upon thee, and thou art weary; it touches thee, and thou art troubled.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And now that it [(affliction)] comes upon you, do you weary? It touches you and you are confounded?


###### Job 4:6
[Job 4:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/4:6)

הֲלֹ֣א יִ֭רְאָתְךָ כִּסְלָתֶ֑ךָ תִּ֝קְוָתְךָ֗ וְתֹ֣ם דְּרָכֶֽיךָ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Is not thy fear of God thy confidence, and thy hope the integrity of thy ways?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Is it not [now evident that all] your fear [of the L rd] was folly, as was your hope [of good] and the uprightness of your ways?


###### Job 4:7
[Job 4:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/4:7)

זְכׇר־נָ֗א מִ֤י ה֣וּא נָקִ֣י אָבָ֑ד וְ֝אֵיפֹ֗ה יְשָׁרִ֥ים נִכְחָֽדוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Recall, now, who that was innocent ever perished? or where were the upright cut off?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Remember now: Who is the clean man that has gone lost, and where are the righteous who have been cut off,


###### Job 4:8
[Job 4:8](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/4:8)

כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר רָ֭אִיתִי חֹ֣רְשֵׁי אָ֑וֶן וְזֹרְעֵ֖י עָמָ֣ל יִקְצְרֻֽהוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Even as I have seen, they that plough iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
as I have seen the plowers of iniquity and the sowers of wrong reap it [(the fruits of their evil)]?


###### Job 4:9
[Job 4:9](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/4:9)

מִנִּשְׁמַ֣ת אֱל֣וֹהַּ יֹאבֵ֑דוּ וּמֵר֖וּחַ אַפּ֣וֹ יִכְלֽוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
By the breath [(the tempestuous wrath)] of G d they go lost; they are cut off by the wind of His nostril. [(The allusion is to the generation of the flood.)]


###### Job 4:10
[Job 4:10](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/4:10)

שַׁאֲגַ֣ת אַ֭רְיֵה וְק֣וֹל שָׁ֑חַל וְשִׁנֵּ֖י כְפִירִ֣ים נִתָּֽעוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
The roar of the lion, and the cry of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[Though theirs is] the roar of the [great] lion, and the voice of the lion, and the teeth of the young lions, they are confounded.


###### Job 4:11
[Job 4:11](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/4:11)

לַ֭יִשׁ אֹבֵ֣ד מִבְּלִי־טָ֑רֶף וּבְנֵ֥י לָ֝בִ֗יא יִתְפָּרָֽדוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
The lion goes lost, without his prey, and the lion's children are scattered [(over all the earth [an allusion to the generation of the Tower of Bavel])].


###### Job 4:12
[Job 4:12](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/4:12)

וְ֭אֵלַי דָּבָ֣ר יְגֻנָּ֑ב וַתִּקַּ֥ח אׇ֝זְנִ֗י שֵׁ֣מֶץ מֶֽנְהֽוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Now a word came stealthily to me, and my ear took fright at it.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Now [(concerning you)] a thing [(a prophecy)] stole itself to me [(the Holy Spirit not coming openly to the gentile prophets)]; my ear caught a trace of it.


###### Job 4:13
[Job 4:13](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/4:13)

בִּ֭שְׂעִפִּים מֵחֶזְיֹנ֣וֹת לָ֑יְלָה בִּנְפֹ֥ל תַּ֝רְדֵּמָ֗ה עַל־אֲנָשִֽׁים׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls,

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
In the thoughts of the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men.


###### Job 4:14
[Job 4:14](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/4:14)

פַּ֣חַד קְ֭רָאַנִי וּרְעָדָ֑ה וְרֹ֖ב עַצְמוֹתַ֣י הִפְחִֽיד׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Fear possessed me and trembling, and it affrighted the bulk of my bones.


###### Job 4:15
[Job 4:15](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/4:15)

וְ֭רוּחַ עַל־פָּנַ֣י יַחֲלֹ֑ף תְּ֝סַמֵּ֗ר שַׂעֲרַ֥ת בְּשָׂרִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Then a spirit passed before my face; it made the hair of my flesh to bristle up:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And a spirit [(an angel)] passed before my face; it stood the hair of my flesh on end.


###### Job 4:16
[Job 4:16](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/4:16)

יַעֲמֹ֤ד**׀** וְֽלֹא־אַכִּ֬יר מַרְאֵ֗הוּ תְּ֭מוּנָה לְנֶ֣גֶד עֵינָ֑י דְּמָמָ֖ה וָק֣וֹל אֶשְׁמָֽע׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
it stood still, but I could not discern its form: a shape was before my eyes: there was silence, and I heard a voice saying,

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
It stood, but I could not delineate its appearance, [though] its visage was before my eyes; a soft voice I heard;


###### Job 4:17
[Job 4:17](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/4:17)

הַ֭אֱנוֹשׁ מֵאֱל֣וֹהַּ יִצְדָּ֑ק אִ֥ם מֵ֝עֹשֵׂ֗הוּ יִטְהַר־גָּֽבֶר׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
"Will a mortal [presume to] be more righteous than G d? Will a man be purer than his Maker?


###### Job 4:18
[Job 4:18](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/4:18)

הֵ֣ן בַּ֭עֲבָדָיו לֹ֣א יַאֲמִ֑ין וּ֝בְמַלְאָכָ֗יו יָשִׂ֥ים תׇּהֳלָֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Behold, he puts no trust in his servants; and his angels he charges with folly:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
In His very servants [(Moses and Aaron)] He places no faith and to His angels [Moses and Aaron (viz. Numbers 20:16)] He ascribes wrong [viz. Ibid. 12].


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

אַ֤ף**׀** שֹׁכְנֵ֬י בָֽתֵּי־חֹ֗מֶר אֲשֶׁר־בֶּעָפָ֥ר יְסוֹדָ֑ם יְ֝דַכְּא֗וּם לִפְנֵי־עָֽשׁ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
How much more so [is He exalted above] the inhabitants of houses of clay [i.e., graves], whose origin is in the dust, who are crushed before the worms [(which devour them)]!


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

מִבֹּ֣קֶר לָעֶ֣רֶב יֻכַּ֑תּוּ מִבְּלִ֥י מֵ֝שִׂ֗ים לָנֶ֥צַח יֹאבֵֽדוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Between morning and evening they are destroyed: they perish for ever without anyone paying heed.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
From morning to night [i.e., in one day] they are broken, without taking [it to heart to repent], and they go lost for all time.


###### Job 4:21
[Job 4:21](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/4:21)

הֲלֹא־נִסַּ֣ע יִתְרָ֣ם בָּ֑ם יָ֝מ֗וּתוּ וְלֹ֣א בְחׇכְמָֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Is not their excellency which was in them gone away? they die; for they are without wisdom.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Is their primacy [(their pride and their wisdom)] not swallowed up in them? They die — and not in wisdom."