## Rashi on Job Chapter 17

###### Rashi on Job 17:1:1
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**נִזְעָכוּ.** נִקְפְּצוּ, כְּמוֹ ״נִדְעָכוּ״ (איוב ו:יז):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**flicker** Heb. נזעכו have sprung away, like (above 6:17) “they jump (נדעכו).”


###### Rashi on Job 17:1:2
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**קְבָרִים לִי.** מוּכָן אֲנִי לַקֶּבֶר:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**graves are ready for me** I am ready for the grave.


###### Rashi on Job 17:2:1
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**אִם לֹא.** אִם לֹא זֹאת בָּאַתְנִי, שֶׁבְּנֵי אָדָם הַתּוּלִים נוֹעֲדוּ עִמִּי בְּתַנְחוּמַי, לְהָתֵל בִּי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**even if there were no** [Even if] this had not befallen me, that scornful people had gathered with me in my consolations to mock me.


###### Rashi on Job 17:2:2
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**וּבְהַמְּרוֹתָם.** כְּמוֹ ״וַיַּמְרוּ בִי״ (יחזקאל כ:ח), ״מַמְרִים הֱיִיתֶם״ (דברים ט:ז) – לְשׁוֹן בְּהַקְנָטַתְכֶם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**in their provocation** Heb. ובהמרותם, like (Ezek. 20:8, 13, 21), “And they provoked (וימרו) me”; (Deut. 9:7), “you have been provoking (ממרים).” [This is] an expression meaning: in their provocation.


###### Rashi on Job 17:2:3
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**תָּלַן עֵינִי.** עֵינִי וְלִבִּי וּמַחֲשַׁבְתִּי לָנוּחַ בָּהֶן:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**my eye...abide** My eye, my heart, and my thought abide in them.


###### Rashi on Job 17:3:1
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**שִׂימָה נָּא.** הַבּוֹרֵא:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Pay heed now** O Creator.


###### Rashi on Job 17:3:2
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**עָרְבֵנִי.** בְּתֵקַע כַּף, לְהִתְוַכֵּחַ יַחַד. כְּמוֹ **מִי הוּא מֵאֵלֶּה לְיָדִי יִתָּקֵעַ** וְיִיטַב לוֹ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**give me surety** by shaking the hands to debate together, for who is it of these who will shake my hand that it should be good for me?


###### Rashi on Job 17:4:1
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**כִּי לִבָּם צָפַנְתָּ מִשָּׂכֶל.** וְעַל כֵּן לֹא תְרוֹמֵם תִּפְאַרְתְּךָ עַל יְדֵיהֶם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**For** Behold. **You have hidden their hearts from understanding** Therefore, Your glory will not be exalted through them.


###### Rashi on Job 17:5:1
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**לְחֵלֶק יַגִּיד.** לַחֲלַקְלַקּוּת **יַגִּיד** כָּל אֶחָד מֵהֶם אֶת רֵעוֹ, וְזֹאת תָּבֹא לָהֶם: **עֵינֵי בָנָיו תִּכְלֶינָה**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**flattery** Heb. לְחֵלֶק, flattery (חלקלקות). **speaks** Each one of them [speaks] to his friend, and this will come to them: their children’s eyes will fail.


###### Rashi on Job 17:6:1
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**וְתֹפֶת.** כְּמוֹ ״תֹּף״ (ישעיהו ה:יב):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and...a drum** Heb. תפת, like תּוֹף, a drum.


###### Rashi on Job 17:6:2
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**לְפָנִים.** שֶׁל בְּרִיּוֹת אֲנִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**before them** lit. to the face; [i.e., to the face] of the people, I am [a drum].


###### Rashi on Job 17:7:1
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**וִיצוּרַי.** אֵיבָרִים שֶׁאֲנִי נוֹצָר בָּהֶם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and my limbs** namely, the limbs with which I was formed.


###### Rashi on Job 17:8:1
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**יִשֹּׁמּוּ.** יִתְמְהוּ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**will be appalled** they will wonder.


###### Rashi on Job 17:8:2
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**וְנָקִי.** אִם יֵשׁ צַדִּיק שׁוֹמֵעַ בְּהַתּוּלוֹת הַחֲנֵפִים הָאֵלֶּה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and an innocent one** If there is a righteous [man] who hears the mockery of these hypocrites.


###### Rashi on Job 17:8:3
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**יִתְעוֹרָר.** לָרִיב בָּכֶם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**will be aroused** to quarrel with you.


###### Rashi on Job 17:9:1
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**וְיֹאחֵז.** כָּל צַדִּיק דַּרְכּוֹ לַעֲמֹד כְּנֶגֶד כַּת חֲנֵפִים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Yet the righteous holds on his way** i.e., every righteous man holds on his way to stand up against the company of the hypocrites.


###### Rashi on Job 17:10:1
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**וְאוּלָם כֻּלָּם.** אֲנִי אוֹמֵר לָכֶם **תָּשׁוּבוּ נָא וּבֹאוּ נָא**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**But all of them** I say to you, “Return now and come now.”


###### Rashi on Job 17:10:2
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**וְלֹא אֶמְצָא בָכֶם חָכָם.** בְּמַה שֶּׁאַתֶּם מַלְעִיגִים עַל קַבָּלָתִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and I will not find any wise man among you** insofar as you mock my lamentation.


###### Rashi on Job 17:11:1
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**יָמַי וְגוֹ׳.** הִנֵּה יְמֵי טוֹבָתִי שֶׁהֻרְגַּלְתִּי בָּהֶם, **עָבְרוּ**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**My days etc.** Behold, the days of my prosperity, to which I became accustomed, have passed.


###### Rashi on Job 17:11:2
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**זִמּוֹתַי.** שֶׁזָּמוֹתִי לְהַאֲרִיךְ בְּטוֹבָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**my purposes** Which I had expected to last with prosperity.


###### Rashi on Job 17:11:3
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**נִתְּקוּ מוֹרָשֵׁי לְבָבִי.** מַחֲשָׁבוֹת שֶׁלִּבִּי מוֹרִישַׁנִי, שֶׁהָיָה לִבִּי אוֹמֵר לִי לִירַשׁ טוֹבָה לְפִי דַרְכִּי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**the thoughts of my heart have been broken off** Heb. מורשי, lit. the inheritances of. The thoughts which my heart gave me to possess, for my heart said that I would inherit good because of my [righteous] way.


###### Rashi on Job 17:12:1
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**לַיְלָה לְיוֹם יָשִׂימוּ.** הַתּוֹלִים אֵלֶּה הוֹפְכִים לִי לַיְלָה לְיוֹם, כִּי מִצָּרַת הַתּוֹלִים לֹא אִישַׁן בַּלַּיְלָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**They turn night into day** These mockers turn night into day for me, for I cannot sleep at night because of the trouble of the mockings.


###### Rashi on Job 17:12:2
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**אוֹר קָרוֹב.** וְקָצַר לִי, מִפְּנֵי צָרוֹת חֹשֶׁךְ לַיְלָה. אוֹר קָרוֹב – כַּאֲשֶׁר יָבֹא הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ נִרְאֶה לִי שֶׁעַתָּה מִקָּרוֹב הֵאִיר הַיּוֹם, וְנִקְצַר וְחָלַף לוֹ; כְּמוֹ ״הָעִיר הַזֹּאת קְרֹבָה״ (בראשית יט:כ) – נִתְיַשְּׁבָה מִקָּרוֹב מֵחָדָשׁ; וּכְמוֹ ״כִּי רִנְנַת רְשָׁעִים מִקָּרֹב״ (איוב כ:ה), וּכְמוֹ ״חֲדָשִׁים מִקָּרֹב בָּאוּ״ (דברים לב:יז):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**the light is short** lit. קרוב, near, and short for me because of the trouble of the darkness of the night. The light is short; when the sun sets, it appears to me as though a short time ago the day dawned, was shortened, and left. This is like (Gen. 19:20), “this city is recent (קרובה)” it was newly settled recently and like (below 20:5), “That the triumph of the wicked is short (מקרוב),” and like (Deut. 32:17), “new ones that came up of late (מקרוב).”


###### Rashi on Job 17:13:1
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**אִם אֲקַוֶּה שְׁאוֹל.** כְּמוֹ ״אִם חֲרוּצִים יָמָיו״ (איוב יד:ה), כְּלוֹמַר: מֵאַחַר שֶׁאֲנִי מְקַוֶּה **שְׁאוֹל בֵּיתִי**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Since I hope for the grave** Heb. אם, like (above 14:5), “If (אם) his days are limited” [See Rashi ad loc.], i.e., since I hope for the grave as my house.


###### Rashi on Job 17:13:2
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**וּבַחֹשֶׁךְ רִפַּדְתִּי.** שִׁטַּחְתִּי יְצוּעִי בַּקֶּבֶר:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**in the darkness I have spread out my couch** I have spread out my couch in the grave.


###### Rashi on Job 17:14:1
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**לַשַּׁחַת קָרָאתִי אָבִי אָתָּה.** לְהִתְלוֹנֵן בּוֹ יָמִים רַבִּים, כְּאִלּוּ הוּא אָבִי, מֵאַחַר שֶׁתִּקְוָתִי זֹאת הִיא:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**To the pit I have called, ‘You are my father,’** to lodge there many days as though it was my father, since this is my hope.


###### Rashi on Job 17:15:1
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**וְאַיֵּה אֵפוֹ תִקְוָתִי.** וְאַתְּ, לָמָּה נִמְשַׁכְתְּ? וּמִי יְשׁוּרֶנָּה לְהָרִיצָהּ עָדַי?

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Where then is my hope** [Where then is] this [my hope]? Why is it deferred, and who will see it to hasten it to me?


###### Rashi on Job 17:16:1
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**בַּדֵּי שְׁאוֹל תֵּרַדְנָה.** אוֹתָם אֵבָרִים שֶׁסּוֹפָן לֵירֵד שְׁאוֹל, שֶׁתְּהֵא **יַחַד עַל עָפָר נָחַת**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**The limbs of the grave shall descend** Those limbs [of my body] that will ultimately descend to the grave, for indeed they will all rest on the dust.


###### Rashi on Job 17:16:2
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**נָחַת.** מְלוֹנָן, לְשׁוֹן ״וַתָּנַח עֲלֵיהֶם הָרוּחַ״ (במדבר יא:כו):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**they rest on the dust** Heb. נחת, will lodge, an expression of (Num. 11:26), “the spirit rested (ותנח) upon them.”