## Rashi on Job Chapter 10

###### Rashi on Job 10:1:1
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**נָקְטָה נַפְשִׁי.** נַפְשִׁי מִתְקוֹטֶטֶת עַל שֶׁאֲנִי חַי, וְהוּא לְשׁוֹן ״וּנְקֹטֹתֶם בִּפְנֵיכֶם״ (יחזקאל כ:מג):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**My soul quarrels** Heb. נקטה. My soul quarrels about the fact that I am alive. That is an expression of (Ezek. 20:43), “and you shall quarrel (ונקטתם) with yourselves.


###### Rashi on Job 10:1:2
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**אֶעֶזְבָה עָלַי שִׂיחִי.** צָרָתִי, לִזְעוֹק וְלִקְבּוֹל, וְלֹא אוּכַל לְשַׁבְּחוֹ וּלְהַבְלִיגוֹ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**I will leave my speech** i.e., my trouble, to cry and lament, and I cannot forget it or restrain it.


###### Rashi on Job 10:3:1
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**הֲטוֹב.** בִּתְמִיהַּ, כִּי תַעֲשֹׁק וְתִגְזֹל מִן הַצַּדִּיק אֶת צִדְקוֹ, **וְעַל עֲצַת רְשָׁעִים** וּמַקְנִיטִים **הוֹפַעְתָּ** זִיוְךָ, לְהַרְאוֹת לָהֶם פָּנִים שׂוֹחֲקוֹת?

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Is it good** Heb. הטוב, an interrogative form. [Is it good to You] that You should oppress and rob the righteous man of his righteousness, [while] upon the council of the wicked, who vex You, You shine Your splendor to show them a friendly countenance?


###### Rashi on Job 10:5:1
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**הֲכִימֵי אֱנוֹשׁ יָמֶיךָ.** לְהִתְגָּרוֹת בּוֹ וְלִרְדֹּף?

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Are Your days like the days of a mortal** to provoke him and pursue [him]?


###### Rashi on Job 10:7:1
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**עַל דַּעְתְּךָ.** יוֹדֵעַ אַתָּה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**It is in Your knowledge** You know.


###### Rashi on Job 10:8:1
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**עִצְּבוּנִי.** עֲשָׂאוּנִי, עֶצֶב דְּפוּס כְּמוֹ אֵין מְעַצְּבִין אֶת הַקָּטָן (שבת קמו:). וְעַתָּה חֵילוֹתֶיךָ יַחַד סָבִיב:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**shaped me** Heb. עצבוני, They made me a shape, a mold, like “nor straighten (מעצבין) an infant’s limbs,” in Tractate Shabbath (22:6). But now Your hosts are together round about.


###### Rashi on Job 10:8:2
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**וַתְּבַלְּעֵנִי.** הֵם הַתּוֹלָעִים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and You destroy me** These are the worms.


###### Rashi on Job 10:9:1
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**תְּשִׁיבֵנִי.** לְבַסּוֹף:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**You will return me** in the end.


###### Rashi on Job 10:10:1
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**כֶּחָלָב תַּתִּיכֵנִי.** כְּטִפַּת תּוֹלְדוֹתַי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Did you not pour me like milk** Concerning the drop from which I was born.


###### Rashi on Job 10:12:1
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**וּפְקֻדָּתְךָ.** פְּקֻדַּת מִשְׁמַרְתְּךָ, שֶׁמִּנִּיתָ לִי שׁוֹמְרִים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and Your providence** The providence of Your watch, for You appointed watchers for me.


###### Rashi on Job 10:12:2
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**שָׁמְרָה רוּחִי.** בְּבֶטֶן אִמִּי, וְאַחַר כָּךְ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**watched my spirit** in my mother’s womb, and afterwards...


###### Rashi on Job 10:13:1
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**וְאֵלֶּה צָפַנְתָּ בִלְבָבֶךָ.** לְבַלְּעֵנִי, כְּאִלּוּ אֵין (אַתָּה) זוֹכְרָם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**But You hid these in Your heart** to destroy me as though You did not remember them, but...


###### Rashi on Job 10:13:2
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**יָדַעְתִּי כִּי זֹאת עִמָּךְ.** הַכֹּל כַּמְפֹרָשׁ, וְלֹא שָׁכַחְתָּ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**I knew that this was with You**, everything as it was delineated, and You did not forget.


###### Rashi on Job 10:14:1
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**אִם חָטָאתִי וּשְׁמַרְתָּנִי.** נָתַתָּ עֵינֶיךָ בִּי מִלְּהַעְלִים וְלַעֲבוֹר עַל מִדּוֹתֶיךָ. (וּמֵעַתָּה) **וּמֵעֲוֺנִי אֵין אַתָּה מְנַקֵּנִי**, אֶלָּא עַל הַכֹּל אַתָּה פּוֹרֵעַ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**If I sinned, You watched me** You laid Your eyes on me so as not to ignore [my sins] nor to forbear retaliation, and [from now on] You are not cleansing me of my iniquity but are requiting me for everything.


###### Rashi on Job 10:15:1
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**שְׂבַע קָלוֹן.** אֲנִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**sated with disgrace** am I.


###### Rashi on Job 10:15:2
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**וּרְאֵה עָנְיִי.** אֵין זֶה צִוּוּי, אֶלָּא שֵׁם דָּבָר: **רְאֵה עָנְיִי.** בֶּדְנַ״ץ בְּלַעַ״ז; שֶׁכָּל שָׁעָה אֲנִי רוֹאֵהוּ. כְּמוֹ שֶׁאַתָּה אוֹמֵר ״וּשְׂבַע יָמִים״ (איוב מב:יז) – כְּמוֹ וְשָׂבֵעַ יָמִים, כֵּן תֹּאמַר וּרְאֵה – כְּמוֹ ׳וְרוֹאֶה עָנְיִי׳:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and seeing my affliction** Heb. וראה. This is not an expression of the imperative, but is an adjective. וראה עניי is badlace (?) in Old French, “that I see it all the time.” As you say (below, at the end of the Book), “וּשְׂבַע יָמִים, and I am sated with days,” like “וְשָׂבֵעַ יָמִים” (with a “kamatz” under the “sin”) so do you say; וּרְאֵה, like וְרוֹאֶה, “and seeing my affliction.”


###### Rashi on Job 10:16:1
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**וְיִגְאֶה כַּשַּׁחַל תְּצוּדֵנִי.** וְיִגְדַּל בְּעֵינֶיךָ לִהְיוֹת לְךָ לְמַשָּׂא וּלְפַח נֶפֶשׁ, אֶת אֲשֶׁר **כַּשַּׁחַל תְּצוּדֵנִי** אֲשֶׁר תִּפְרֹשׂ לִי מְצוּדָה, כְּאִלּוּ אֲנִי גִּבּוֹר כַּשַּׁחַל:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**And it is so great that You hunt me like a lion** And it is so great in Your eyes to be to You as a burden and a disappointment, that You hunt me like a lion; You spread out a net for me as though I was as mighty as a lion.


###### Rashi on Job 10:16:2
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**וְתָשׁוּב.** מִיּוֹם אֶל יוֹם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and You repeatedly** from day to day.


###### Rashi on Job 10:16:3
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**תִּתְפַּלָּא בִי.** לְדַקְדֵּק וּלְהַפְלִיא בַּמִּשְׁפָּט, לְשׁוֹן ״כִּי יַפְלִא״ (במדבר ו:ב):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**pronounce a verdict upon me** Heb. תתפלא, to exact and to pronounce judgment, an expression of (Num. 6:2). “shall pronounce (יפלא).”


###### Rashi on Job 10:17:1
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**עֵדֶיךָ.** לְהָעִיד עַל חֲלִיפַת הֶחֳלָאִים וּמַכְאוֹבִים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Your witnesses** to testify about the changes of the ailments and the pains.


###### Rashi on Job 10:17:2
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**וְצָבָא עִמִּי.** זְמַנִּים קְצוּבִים לְיִסּוּרַי; אֵלּוּ מְשַׁמְּשִׁים (צבא א׳), וְחוֹזְרִים וּמִתְחַלְּפִים שִׁנּוּיִים מְשֻׁנִּים מֵאֵלֶּה, וּמְשַׁמְּשִׁין זְמַן אַחֵר:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**with set times are with me** Times set for these my tortures, which serve (once) and [then] repeatedly shift with changes different from these, and serve again.


###### Rashi on Job 10:18:1
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**אֶגְוַע וְעַיִן לֹא תִרְאֵנִי.** הַלְוַאי אֶגְוַע מֵרֶחֶם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Would that I had died and no eye had seen me** If only I had died [upon emerging] from the womb.


###### Rashi on Job 10:19:1
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**אוּבָל.** הַלְוַאי הָיִיתִי מוּבָל:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**would that I was brought from the womb to the grave** Would that I was brought.


###### Rashi on Job 10:20:1
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**וְשִׁית מִמֶּנִּי.** תָּשִׁית עַצְמְךָ מִמֶּנִּי וּמֵעָלַי, כְּמוֹ ״קְרַב אֵלֶיךָ״ (ישעיה סה:ה) – קְרַב לְעַצְמְךָ וּרְחַק מִמֶּנִּי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**withdraw from me** Withdraw Yourself from me and from upon me, like (Isa. 65:5), “Keep to yourself” Remain by yourself and distance yourself from me.


###### Rashi on Job 10:21:1
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**בְּטֶרֶם אֵלֵךְ.** בְּעוֹדֶנִּי חַי וְלֹא הִגִּיעַ עֵת מוֹתִי, הַנַּח לִי וְאַרְגִּיעַ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**before I go** While I am still alive, and the time for me to die has not yet arrived, desist from me and I will rest.


###### Rashi on Job 10:22:1
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**עֵיפָתָה.** שֵׁם דָּבָר, חֲשֵׁיכָה, כְּמוֹ ״שַׁחַר וְעֵיפָה״ (עמוס ד:יג):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**darkness** Heb. עפתה. This is a noun meaning darkness, like (Amos 4: 13) “dawn and darkness (ועיפתה).”


###### Rashi on Job 10:22:2
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**צַלְמָוֶת.** הִיא וְלֹא סְדָרִים בָּהּ (שֶׁאֵין שָׁם סִדְרֵי אָדָם כְּלוֹמַר מִנְהָגִים שֶׁאֵין שָׁם יִשּׁוּב וְאוֹר שֶׁלָּהּ כְּמוֹ אֹפֶל הוּא):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**the shadow of death** it is, without orders in it (that there are no orders of man; i.e., there are no customs, for there is no civilization, and its light is like darkness).


###### Rashi on Job 10:22:3
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**וַתֹּפַע כְּמוֹ אֹפֶל.** מָקוֹם מוּפָע שֶׁבָּהּ, כְּמוֹ אֹפֶל הוּא:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and where the light is as darkness** The illuminated place [therein] is like darkness.