## Rashi on Job Chapter 14

###### Rashi on Job 14:3:1
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**אַף עַל זֶה.** הַהֶבֶל וְהַנִּרְקָב:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**also on this one** [creature of] futility that decays


###### Rashi on Job 14:3:2
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**פָּקַחְתָּ עֵינֶיךָ.** לְדַקְדֵּק בַּחֲטָאָיו:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
have You opened Your eyes to be exact with his sins,


###### Rashi on Job 14:3:3
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**וְאוֹתִי.** אַתָּה מֵבִיא בְמִשְׁפָּט עַל עֲווֹנוֹתַי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
and You bring me into judgment for my iniquities?


###### Rashi on Job 14:4:1
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**מִי יִתֵּן טָהוֹר.** מִדְּבַר טִפָּה סְרוּחָה וְשִׁכְבַת זֶרַע שֶׁהוּא טָמֵא. **לֹא אֶחָד** בָּהֶם טָהוֹר, שֶׁלֹּא יֶחֱטָא:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Who can bring a clean thing** from a putrid drop, and semen, which is unclean? Not one of them is clean, that he should not sin.


###### Rashi on Job 14:5:1
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**אִם חֲרוּצִים יָמָיו.** אִם גְּמוּל זֶה הוּא מִשְׁתַּלֵּם, שֶׁחֲרוּצִים וּקְצוּבִים לְיוֹם קָבוּעַ וּמְיֻעָד לְמִיתָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**If his days are limited** If he is requited with this recompense—that his days are limited to a day set for death,


###### Rashi on Job 14:5:2
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**וּמִסְפַּר חֳדָשָׁיו אִתָּךְ.** קְצוּבִים, וְחֹק זֶה עָשִׂיתָ לוֹ וְלֹא יִתְקַיֵּם עוֹד יוֹתֵר בָּעוֹלָם – דַּי לְךָ בַּתַּשְׁלוּמִין הַלָּלוּ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
and the number of months is set with You, and [that] You set this boundary—and he will no longer exist in the world, [then] this payment is sufficient for You.


###### Rashi on Job 14:6:1
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**שְׁעֵה מֵעָלָיו.** בְּאוֹתוֹ מִעוּט חָרַץ הַיָּמִים, וְיֶחְדַּל לוֹ מִמַּכְאוֹב, עַד יִרְצֶה בְּזִקְנוּתוֹ וְתַשּׁוּת כֹּחוֹ **אֶת יוֹם מוֹתוֹ כְּשָׂכִיר** הָרוֹצֶה לְהַשְׁלָמַת עֲבוֹדַת יוֹמוֹ. כִּי עֲבִירָתוֹ מִן הָעוֹלָם חֲלוּטָה וְנִצְמֶתֶת מִשְּׁאָר כָּל הָעוֹבְרִים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Turn away from him** during those few limited days and let him rest from pain until he desires, in his old age and the weakness of his strength, the day of his death like a hireling who desires the completion of his day’s work; for his passing from the world is decided and more definite than all passings.


###### Rashi on Job 14:7:1
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**כִּי יֵשׁ לָעֵץ תִּקְוָה.** שֶׁיַּחֲלֹף:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**a tree has** This [tree] has hope that it will renew itself


###### Rashi on Job 14:7:2
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**וְיֹנַקְתּוֹ.** אֲשֶׁר מִגִּזְעוֹ **לֹא תֶחְדָּל** מִהְיוֹת עָנָף:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
and its bough will not cease from being a branch.


###### Rashi on Job 14:9:1
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**וְעָשָׂה קָצִיר.** הִיא יוֹנֶקֶת, כְּמוֹ ״תְּשַׁלַּח קְצִירֶיהָ עַד יָם״ (תהילים פ:יב):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and it will produce a branch** Heb. קציר. This is a branch, as (Ps. 80:12), “She sent out her boughs (קצירה) to the sea.”


###### Rashi on Job 14:9:2
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**נָטַע.** שֵׁם דָּבָר הוּא, וְטַעַם הֲבָרָתוֹ לְמַעְלָה בַּנּוּ״ן, וְנִנְקַד כֻּלּוֹ קָמַץ מִפְּנֵי שֶׁהוּא סוֹף פָּסוּק. אַף מִגִּזְרַת ״נָטַע״ (ישעיה מד:יד) הוּא:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**a sapling** Heb. נטע. This is a noun. It is accented on the first syllable, and is punctuated completely with a “kamatz” because it is the end of the verse, but it is derived from נֶטַע, a sapling.


###### Rashi on Job 14:11:1
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**אָזְלוּ מַיִם מִנִּי יָם.** מִמָּקוֹם שֶׁנָּהָר בָּא וְיוֹצֵא מִמְּקוֹרוֹ, הַבָּא מֵאֵלָיו מִן הַיָּם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**As the waters fail from the sea** From the place whence the river comes and emerges, from its source that comes to it from the sea. [Alternative explanation of Rashi: From the place whence the river comes, and they went away from its source (from) which (the water) comes to it.]


###### Rashi on Job 14:11:2
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**וְהַנָּהָר.** הַבָּא מִשָּׁם יֶחֱרַב וְיִיבַשׁ לְעוֹלָם, כֵּן אִישׁ שָׁכַב וְלֹא יָקוּם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and the river** that comes from there is drained dry forever. So does a man lie down and not rise.


###### Rashi on Job 14:14:1
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**כָּל־יְמֵי צְבָאִי אֲיַחֵל.** לִתְחִיָּה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**All the days of my lifespan, I will hope** for life.


###### Rashi on Job 14:15:1
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**תִּקְרָא.** תְּחִנָּה הִיא: קְרָא אֵלַי **וְאָנֹכִי אֶעֱנֶךָּ** לְהוֹכִיחַ דְּבָרַי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Call** This is a supplication. Call to me and I will answer you to prove my case.


###### Rashi on Job 14:15:2
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**תִּכְסֹף.** תַּחְמֹד:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**You desire** Heb. תִכְסֹף, You desire.


###### Rashi on Job 14:16:1
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**כִּי עַתָּה.** אַתָּה מֵרֵיעַ לִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**But now** You are harming me.


###### Rashi on Job 14:16:2
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**צְעָדַי.** אַתָּה סוֹפֵר:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**my steps** You are counting.


###### Rashi on Job 14:16:3
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**לֹא תִשְׁמוֹר.** אֵינְךָ מַמְתִּין עַל חַטָּאתִי מִלְּהִפָּרַע, כְּמוֹ ״וְאָבִיו שָׁמַר אֶת הַדָּבָר״ (בראשית לז:יא) – הִמְתִּין שֶׁתִּתְקַיֵּם. וּבִלְשׁוֹן מִשְׁנָה (סנהדרין סג:): לֹא יֹאמַר אָדָם לַחֲבֵרוֹ שְׁמוֹר לִי בְּצַד עֲבוֹדַת כּוֹכָבִים פְּלוֹנִית – לְשׁוֹן ״הַמְתֵּן״:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**You do not wait** Heb. תשמר. You do not wait for my sin to requite me, as (Gen. 37:11), “but his father awaited (שמר) the matter,” and in the language of the Mishnah (Sanh. 63b): “A person may not say to his companion, ‘Wait (שמר) for me beside such and such a pagan deity.’” [It is] an expression of waiting.


###### Rashi on Job 14:17:1
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**חָתוּם בִּצְרוֹר.** חָתוּם וּמְשֻׁמָּר בִּצְרוֹר בֶּגֶד, כְּכֶסֶף וּמַרְגָּלִיּוֹת, שֶׁלֹּא תֹּאבַד:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**sealed up in a bundle** Sealed and preserved in a cloth bundle like silver and pearls, lest it be lost.


###### Rashi on Job 14:17:2
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**וַתִּטְפֹּל עַל עֲוֺנִי.** נִתְחַבַּרְתָּ עַל עֲוֺנִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and You have attached Yourself to my iniquity** Heb. ותטפל, You have attached Yourself to my iniquity.


###### Rashi on Job 14:18:1
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**וְאוּלָם הַר נוֹפֵל.** הַר הַנּוֹפֵל גָּבְהוֹ יִבּוֹל וְיֵעָשֶׂה עָפָר, וּתְהֵא לוֹ תִּקְוָה לֵיהָנוֹת מִמֶּנּוּ. **וְצוּר** אֲשֶׁר נֶעְתַּק מִמְּקוֹמוֹ גַּם הוּא, יִבּוֹל לְשׁוֹן תְּבוּאָה. אוֹ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**And surely the falling mountain gives forth produce** The height of a falling mountain will give forth produce. It will produce dust, and there will be hope of deriving benefit from it. **and the rock** that moves from its place will also give forth produce. This is an expression of grain.


###### Rashi on Job 14:19:1
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**אֲבָנִים.** אֲשֶׁר **שָׁחֲקוּ מַיִם** בְּעָבְרָם עֲלֵיהֶם תָּמִיד:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Stones** which **the water eroded** by constantly passing over them.


###### Rashi on Job 14:19:2
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**תִּשְׁטֹף.** הִשְׁטִיפוּ סְפִיחֶיהָ שֶׁל אֶבֶן לֵיהָפֵךְ לְעָפָר וְלִצְמֹחַ בּוֹ דָּבָר, כַּאֲשֶׁר יִצְמַח סְפִיחַ הַקָּצִיר שֶׁעָבַר – כֵּן יִתְהַפֵּךְ עָפָר זֶה סְפִיחֶיהָ לְאֶבֶן:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**it washes away** i.e., the flood. **its aftergrowth** of the stone, to be transformed into dust so that something should grow in it. As the aftergrowths of the harvest grow, so will the aftergrowths of this earth be transformed to stone.


###### Rashi on Job 14:19:3
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**וְתִקְוַת אֱנוֹשׁ.** אֵינָהּ כֵּן, אֲשֶׁר מִשֶּׁיָּמוּת – אָבְדָה סֶלָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**but the hope of man** is not so, because as soon as he dies, it is lost forever.


###### Rashi on Job 14:20:1
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**תִּתְקְפֵהוּ.** תֶּחֱזַק מִמֶּנּוּ וְתֶאֱנְסֵהוּ בְּתָקְפְּךָ, **וַיַּהֲלֹךְ** מִן הָעוֹלָם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**You overpower him** You are stronger than he; You overcome him with Your power, and he goes away from the world.


###### Rashi on Job 14:21:1
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**יִכְבְּדוּ.** יִהְיוּ כְבֵדִים בְּכֶסֶף וּבְזָהָב, וְהוּא לֹא יֵדָע:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**become wealthy** Heb. יכבדו, lit. they will become heavy. They will become heavy with silver and gold, but he will not know.


###### Rashi on Job 14:21:2
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**וְיִצְעֲרוּ.** וְיִמְעֲטוּ מִכָּל טוֹב, וְהוּא לֹא יָבִין:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and they become poor** And they have little of any good, but he will not understand it.


###### Rashi on Job 14:22:1
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**אַךְ בְּשָׂרוֹ עָלָיו יִכְאָב.** קָשָׁה רִמָּה לַמֵּת כְּמַחַט בַּבָּשָׂר הֶחָי (שבת יג:):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**But his flesh causes him pain** A worm is as painful to the dead as a needle in the flesh of the living.