## Job Chapter 8

###### Job 8:1
[Job 8:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/8:1)

וַ֭יַּעַן בִּלְדַּ֥ד הַשּׁוּחִ֗י וַיֹּאמַֽר׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Then answered Bildad the Shuĥite, and said,

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Then Bildad the Shuchite raised his voice and said:


###### Job 8:2
[Job 8:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/8:2)

עַד־אָ֥ן תְּמַלֶּל־אֵ֑לֶּה וְר֥וּחַ כַּ֝בִּ֗יר אִמְרֵי־פִֽיךָ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
How long will you speak thus? A great wind are the words of your mouth.


###### Job 8:3
[Job 8:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/8:3)

הַ֭אֵל יְעַוֵּ֣ת מִשְׁפָּ֑ט וְאִם־שַׁ֝דַּ֗י יְעַוֵּת־צֶֽדֶק׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Does God pervert judgment? or does the Almighty pervert justice?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Will G d pervert judgment [(and not punish the wicked)]?


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

אִם־בָּנֶ֥יךָ חָֽטְאוּ־ל֑וֹ וַֽ֝יְשַׁלְּחֵ֗ם בְּיַד־פִּשְׁעָֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
If thy children have sinned against him, he has cast them out for their transgression.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
When your sons sinned against Him, He drove them [(from the world)] through their offense.


###### Job 8:5
[Job 8:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/8:5)

אִם־אַ֭תָּה תְּשַׁחֵ֣ר אֶל־אֵ֑ל וְאֶל־שַׁ֝דַּ֗י תִּתְחַנָּֽן׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
If thou wilt seek to God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
If you seek out the L rd and make supplication of the Almighty,


###### Job 8:6
[Job 8:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/8:6)

אִם־זַ֥ךְ וְיָשָׁ֗ר אָ֥֫תָּה כִּֽי־עַ֭תָּה יָעִ֣יר עָלֶ֑יךָ וְ֝שִׁלַּ֗ם נְוַ֣ת צִדְקֶֽךָ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
if thou be pure and upright; surely now he will rouse himself for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
If you are pure and upright, He will now awaken [your merit] for you and make complete the habitation of your righteousness.


###### Job 8:7
[Job 8:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/8:7)

וְהָיָ֣ה רֵאשִׁיתְךָ֣ מִצְעָ֑ר וְ֝אַחֲרִֽיתְךָ֗ יִשְׂגֶּ֥ה מְאֹֽד׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Though thy beginning was small, yet thy end will be very great.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And your former [good] will be [accounted] small, for your latter [good] will be extremely great.


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

כִּֽי־שְׁאַל־נָ֭א לְדֹ֣ר רִישׁ֑וֹן וְ֝כוֹנֵ֗ן לְחֵ֣קֶר אֲבוֹתָֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and attend assiduously to what their fathers have sought out:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For inquire now about the past generation and ready yourself to [understand] the findings of their ancestors.


###### Job 8:9
[Job 8:9](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/8:9)

כִּֽי־תְמ֣וֹל אֲ֭נַחְנוּ וְלֹ֣א נֵדָ֑ע כִּ֤י צֵ֖ל יָמֵ֣ינוּ עֲלֵי־אָֽרֶץ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
(for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For it is [as if] we [were born] yesterday and knew nothing; for as a [passing] shadow are our days upon the earth.


###### Job 8:10
[Job 8:10](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/8:10)

הֲלֹא־הֵ֣ם י֭וֹרוּךָ יֹ֣אמְרוּ לָ֑ךְ וּ֝מִלִּבָּ֗ם יוֹצִ֥אוּ מִלִּֽים׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Will they not teach you and tell you [what they have acquired] and bring forth [their own] words [of wisdom] from their hearts?


###### Job 8:11
[Job 8:11](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/8:11)

הֲיִֽגְאֶה־גֹּ֭מֶא בְּלֹ֣א בִצָּ֑ה יִשְׂגֶּה־אָ֥חוּ בְלִי־מָֽיִם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Can the rush shoot up without mire? can the reed grass grow without water?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[(And this is what they will tell you:)] Will the rush grow without mire? Will the reed grass grow without water?


###### Job 8:12
[Job 8:12](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/8:12)

עֹדֶ֣נּוּ בְ֭אִבּוֹ לֹ֣א יִקָּטֵ֑ף וְלִפְנֵ֖י כׇל־חָצִ֣יר יִיבָֽשׁ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it withers before any other herb.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
As long as it preserves its moistness it will not be cut off; but [without it] it will dry up before any other herb.


###### Job 8:13
[Job 8:13](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/8:13)

כֵּ֗ן אׇ֭רְחוֹת כׇּל־שֹׁ֣כְחֵי אֵ֑ל וְתִקְוַ֖ת חָנֵ֣ף תֹּאבֵֽד׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
So are the paths of all who forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish,

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
So is the way of all who forget the L rd [(to prosper so long as their measure is not yet full)], but [ultimately] the hope of the wicked one will go lost.


###### Job 8:14
[Job 8:14](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/8:14)

אֲשֶׁר־יָק֥וֹט כִּסְל֑וֹ וּבֵ֥ית עַ֝כָּבִ֗ישׁ מִבְטַחֽוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
His confidence will be cut off; as [fragile] as the house [i.e., the web] of the spider will be his trust.


###### Job 8:15
[Job 8:15](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/8:15)

יִשָּׁעֵ֣ן עַל־בֵּ֭יתוֹ וְלֹ֣א יַעֲמֹ֑ד יַחֲזִ֥יק בּ֝֗וֹ וְלֹ֣א יָקֽוּם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
He will lean on his house, but it will not stand; he will grab on to it, but it will not hold.


###### Job 8:16
[Job 8:16](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/8:16)

רָטֹ֣ב ה֭וּא לִפְנֵי־שָׁ֑מֶשׁ וְעַ֥ל גַּ֝נָּת֗וֹ יֹנַקְתּ֥וֹ תֵצֵֽא׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
He is green before the sun, and his branch shoots forth over his garden wall.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
He is moist before the [stroke of the] sun and over his garden his shoot emerges.


###### Job 8:17
[Job 8:17](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/8:17)

עַל־גַּ֭ל שׇׁרָשָׁ֣יו יְסֻבָּ֑כוּ בֵּ֖ית אֲבָנִ֣ים יֶחֱזֶֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
His roots are wrapped about the stone heap: he selects for himself a place of stones.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
On a mound his roots entwine and he sees a house of stone [(a strong site, which he builds up as a stronghold)].


###### Job 8:18
[Job 8:18](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/8:18)

אִם־יְבַלְּעֶ֥נּוּ מִמְּקֹמ֑וֹ וְכִ֥חֶשׁ בּ֝֗וֹ לֹ֣א רְאִיתִֽיךָ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
But if one destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
But when He swallows him from his place, it denies him, [saying, as it were:] "I never saw you."


###### Job 8:19
[Job 8:19](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/8:19)

הֶן־ה֭וּא מְשׂ֣וֹשׂ דַּרְכּ֑וֹ וּ֝מֵעָפָ֗ר אַחֵ֥ר יִצְמָֽחוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others spring.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
This, then is the "joy" of his [(the wicked one's)] way. And from [men who until now were as lowly as] the earth, another will sprout [(to appropriate all of his greatness)].


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

הֶן־אֵ֭ל לֹ֣א יִמְאַס־תָּ֑ם וְלֹֽא־יַ֝חֲזִ֗יק בְּיַד־מְרֵעִֽים׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Behold, God will not cast away an innocent man, nor will he uphold evildoers.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For G d will not despise the innocent one, and He will not uphold evildoers [(your foes)].


###### Job 8:21
[Job 8:21](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/8:21)

עַד־יְמַלֵּ֣ה שְׂח֣וֹק פִּ֑יךָ וּשְׂפָתֶ֥יךָ תְרוּעָֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
He will yet fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Until [(He will again have mercy upon you)] and He will fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts [of joy].


###### Job 8:22
[Job 8:22](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/8:22)

שֹׂנְאֶ֥יךָ יִלְבְּשׁוּ־בֹ֑שֶׁת וְאֹ֖הֶל רְשָׁעִ֣ים אֵינֶֽנּוּ׃{פ}

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
They who hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the tent of the wicked shall be no more.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Your foes will be clothed with shame and the tent of the wicked will be no more.