## Rashi on Job Chapter 18

###### Rashi on Job 18:2:1
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**(מענה בלדד)**:
**קִנְצֵי.** סוֹף:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Bildad’s reply**
**“How long?”** will you prolong the discussion?


###### Rashi on Job 18:2:2
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**תָּבִינוּ.** תִּשְׁתְּקוּ לְהָבִין וְלִשְׁמֹעַ אֶת אֲשֶׁר נְדַבֵּר:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Consider** Be silent to understand and to hear what we will speak.


###### Rashi on Job 18:3:1
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**נִטְמִינוּ בְעֵינֵיכֶם.** נֶחְשַׁבְנוּ בְעֵינֵיכֶם טְמוּנִין. וְאֵין יְסוֹד בַּתֵּיבָה זוֹ זוּלָתִי טי״ת מ״ם, כְּמוֹ ״טְמוֹנִין פְּלִשְׁתָּאֵי״, תַּרְגּוּם שֶׁל ״סִתְּמוּם פְּלִשְׁתִּים״ (בראשית כו:טו). יֵשׁ מְפָרְשִׁים לְשׁוֹן טְמִינָה, וְטָעוּת הוּא בְּיָדָם, שֶׁאִם כֵּן צְרִיכָה הַתֵּיבָה שְׁנֵי נוּנִי״ן, אֶחָד בַּיְּסוֹד וְאֶחָד בְּשִׁמּוּשׁ שֶׁל רַבִּים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and reputed dull in your sight** Heb. נטמינו. We are considered in your eyes as stopped up. The word has no radical besides the “teth” “mem,” like טַמוֹנוּן פְלִשְתָּאֵי, which is the Aramaic translation of סִתְּמוּם פלשתים “the Philistines stopped them up” (Gen. 26:15). Some explain [this] as an expression of hiding (טמינה), but they are in error, because were that the case, the word would require two “nun”s, one for the radical and one for the plural suffix.


###### Rashi on Job 18:4:1
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**טוֹרֵף נַפְשׁוֹ.** חוֹזֵר עַל אִיּוֹב. לְךָ אֲנִי אוֹמֵר, הַטּוֹרֵף וּמְחַבֵּל נַפְשׁוֹ **בְּאַפּוֹ** וּבְכַעֲסוֹ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**One who destroys his soul** He turns to Job, “To you I say, the one who destroys his soul in his anger and in his wrath.”


###### Rashi on Job 18:4:2
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**הֲלְמַעַנְךָ.** הַלְמַעַן צִדְקָתְךָ תֵּעָזֵב הָאָרֶץ מִמִּשְׁפַּט מִדָּתָהּ?

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**for your sake** For the sake of your innocence shall the earth be abandoned by its standard of justice?


###### Rashi on Job 18:4:3
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**וְיֶעְתַּק צוּר.** הַיּוֹצֵר (מִמְּקוֹמוֹ) מִדַּעְתּוֹ וּמִמִּדָּתוֹ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and shall the Rock be removed** The Creator. **from His place** From His knowledge and from His nature.


###### Rashi on Job 18:5:1
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**גַּם.** עַתָּה, לְפִי צַעֲקָתְךָ, זֹאת תִּנְהַג לְדוֹרוֹת:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Yea** Even now, according to your cry, this will be in force for generations.


###### Rashi on Job 18:5:2
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**אוֹר רְשָׁעִים יִדְעָךְ.** יִקְפֹּץ מִמְּקוֹמוֹ. **שְׁבִיב.** אֶשְׁטַנְצִיל״אָ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**the light of the wicked shall be put out** it shall spring from its place. **spark** Etinceler in French.


###### Rashi on Job 18:7:1
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**יֵצְרוּ.** יִהְיוּ קְצָרִים **צַעֲדֵי** כֹּחוֹ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**shall be straitened** They shall be short. **The steps of** The steps of his strength.


###### Rashi on Job 18:7:2
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**וְתַשְׁלִיכֵהוּ.** מֵעָלָיו עֲצָתוֹ שֶׁיָּעַץ, אֲשֶׁר לֹא יִתְקַיֵּם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**shall cast him down** His counsel that he advised, which will not be fulfilled [will cast him down].


###### Rashi on Job 18:8:1
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**כִּי וְגוֹ׳.** סוֹפוֹ אֲשֶׁר שֻׁלַּח בְּרֶשֶׁת רַגְלָיו, (שֻׁלְּחוּ) לִצְעוֹד עַל הָרֶשֶׁת וְלִיתָּפֵשׂ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**For** his end will be that... **he shall be sent into a net** His feet will be sent to step on a net and be caught.


###### Rashi on Job 18:8:2
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**וְעַל שְׂבָכָה יִתְהַלָּךְ.** הִיא רֶשֶׁת; כָּל שְׂבָכָה עֲשׂוּיָה כְּמוֹ רֶשֶׁת, וְהוּא קֵייפָ״א שֶׁבְּרָאשֵׁי הַנָּשִׁים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and he shall walk on the toils** Heb. שבכה. Every שבכה is made like a net, and that is the coif that is on the head of women.


###### Rashi on Job 18:9:1
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**יֹאחֵז.** יֹאחֲזֶנּוּ בְּעָקֵב פַּח:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**shall seize** A trap shall seize him by the heel.


###### Rashi on Job 18:10:1
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**טָמוּן בָּאָרֶץ.** תַּחַת רַגְלָיו:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**hidden...in the ground** under his feet.


###### Rashi on Job 18:10:2
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**חַבְלוֹ.** חֶבֶל מְצוּדָתוֹ אֲשֶׁר יִלָּכֵד בָּהּ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**A noose...for him** The rope of his trap, with which he will be caught.


###### Rashi on Job 18:10:3
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**וּמַלְכֻּדְתּוֹ.** טָמוּן עֲלֵי נְתִיבוֹ, כְּשֵׁם שֶׁטּוֹמְנִין חֶבֶל מַלְכֹּדֶת לָעוֹפוֹת:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and a trap for him** is hidden on the path just as they hide the noose of the trap for birds.


###### Rashi on Job 18:11:1
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**בַּלָּהוֹת.** שֵׁדִים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**terrors** Demons.


###### Rashi on Job 18:11:2
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**וֶהֱפִיצֻהוּ לְרַגְלָיו.** (יִנְפְּצֵהוּ) יַחְבְּטוּהוּ עַל הָאָרֶץ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and beat him off his fee** They knock him down to the ground.


###### Rashi on Job 18:12:1
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**אוֹנוֹ.** בְּנוֹ (בראשית מט:ג):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**His son** Heb. אֹנוֹ, lit, his strength.


###### Rashi on Job 18:12:2
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**לְצַלְעוֹ.** אִשְׁתּוֹ (בראשית ב:כא):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**for his wife** Heb. לצלעוֹ lit. his rib [alluding to Eve].


###### Rashi on Job 18:13:1
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**יֹאכַל בַּדֵּי עוֹרוֹ.** וְיֹאכַל כָּל שְׁאָר בַּדָּיו – בָּנָיו וּבְנוֹתָיו:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**He shall eat the branches of his body** And he shall devour all the rest of his branches, viz. his sons and daughters.


###### Rashi on Job 18:13:2
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**בְּכוֹר מָוֶת.** שַׂר הַמָּוֶת, כְּמוֹ ״אָנִי בְּכוֹר אֶתְּנֵהוּ״ (תהלים פט:כח):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**the prince of death** Heb. בכור מות, as in (Ps. 89:28), “Also I will make him a prince (בכור).”


###### Rashi on Job 18:14:1
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**יִנָּתֵק מֵאָהֳלוֹ.** מֵאִשְׁתּוֹ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**He shall be torn away from his wife** Heb. מאהלו, lit. from his tent.


###### Rashi on Job 18:14:2
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**מִבְטַחוֹ.** שֶׁהִיא בְּטוּחָה בּוֹ, (מִבְטַחוֹ) מִבְטַחַת שֶׁלּוֹ, שֶׁהִיא בּוֹטַחַת עָלָיו:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**who trusted him** Heb. מבטחו, his trust, who trusted him. (His trust), that she trusted him.


###### Rashi on Job 18:14:3
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**וְתַצְעִידֵהוּ.** וְהִיא תַּצְעִידֵהוּ וְתִשְׁלָחֵהוּ (מֵעָלֶיהָ) לַקֶּבֶר לְמֶלֶךְ הַשֵּׁדִים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**she will cause him to walk.** yet she will cause him to walk and will send him away (from her) to the grave, to the king of the demons.


###### Rashi on Job 18:15:1
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**תִּשְׁכּוֹן בְּאָהֳלוֹ** אַלְמָנָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**She shall dwell** in his tent as a widow.


###### Rashi on Job 18:15:2
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**מִבְּלִי לוֹ.** (שֶׁלֹּא תְּהֵא שֶׁלּוֹ) שֶׁהֲרֵי מֵת, וְסוֹף **יְזֹרֶה עַל נָוֵהוּ גָּפְרִית**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**not being his** (that she will not be his) because he is dead, and ultimately brimstone shall be scattered on his dwelling.


###### Rashi on Job 18:18:1
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**יְהַדְּפוּהוּ.** מִן הַשָּׁמַיִם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**They shall drive him** from heaven.


###### Rashi on Job 18:19:1
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**נֶכֶד.** בֶּן הַבֵּן:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**grandson** Heb. נכד, a son of the son.


###### Rashi on Job 18:20:1
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**נָשַׁמּוּ אַחֲרוֹנִים.** תָּמְהוּ בְּשָׁמְעָם עַל אֵיד אֲשֶׁר בָּא לוֹ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**the later people** They wondered when they heard of the misfortune that befell him.


###### Rashi on Job 18:20:2
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**שָׂעַר.** לֹא יִתָּכֵן לִהְיוֹת מִגִּזְרַת שֵׂעָר, שֶׁאֵין טַעַם שֵׂעָר בְּשִׁי״ן אֶלָּא בְּעַיִן, וְאֵינוֹ נֶהְפָּךְ לְקָמַץ בְּאַתְנַחְתָּא וְסוֹף פָּסוּק. לֹא שָׁמַעְתִּי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**quaking** Heb. שָׂעַר, tempest. This cannot be of the form of שֵׂעָר, hair, because the accent in שָׂעַר is not (on the “sin,” but on the “ayin,”) and it is not converted to a “kamatz” when it is cantillated with an “ethnachta” or a “sof pasuk.” I did not hear this.


###### Rashi on Job 18:21:1
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**אֵלֶּה מִשְׁכְּנוֹת עַוָּל.** זֶה אַחֲרִיתָם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**These are only the dwellings of the unrighteous** This is their fate.