## Rashi on Job Chapter 3

###### Rashi on Job 3:2:1
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**(מענה איוב)** 
**וַיַּעַן.** וַיִּצְעַק, שֶׁכָּל עֲנִיָּה הָאֲמוּרָה בַּתּוֹרָה אֵינָהּ אֶלָּא לְשׁוֹן הֲרָמַת קוֹל, וְאָב לְכֻלָּם: ״וְעָנוּ הַלְוִיִּם קוֹל רָם״ (דברים כז:יד):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Job’s Address**
**Now Job raised his voice** Heb. ויען, he cried out, for every expression of עניה in the Torah is only an expression of raising the voice, and the “father” of them all is (Deut. 27:14): “The Levites shall raise their voices (וענו) etc. with a loud voice.”


###### Rashi on Job 3:3:1
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**אִוָּלֶד בּוֹ.** לְשׁוֹן עָתִיד, שֶׁהָיָה אוֹמֵר: הַלְוַאי וְיֹאבַד הַיּוֹם שֶׁהָיִיתִי עָתִיד לְהִוָּלֵד בּוֹ, וְאָז לֹא הָיִיתִי נוֹלָד:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**in which I was to be born** This is a future expression, that he was saying, “Would that the day in which I was destined to be born be lost, and then I would not have been born.”


###### Rashi on Job 3:3:2
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**וְהַלַּיְלָה.** אַף הִיא תֹּאבַד:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and the night** That too should have been lost.


###### Rashi on Job 3:3:3
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**אָמַר.** שֶׁיֹּאמַר הַמְבַשֵּׂר אֲשֶׁר עָלָיו הַדָּבָר מֻטָּל:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**when one said** that the reporter, upon whom it was incumbent [to report] would say.


###### Rashi on Job 3:3:4
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**הוֹרָה גָבֶר.** שֶׁעִיבֵּר אָבִי אֶת אִמִּי. בִּנְקֵבָה נוֹהֵג לוֹמַר ׳הוֹרָתָה׳, וּבְזָכָר נוֹהֵג לוֹמַר ׳הוֹרָה אֶת הַנְּקֵבָה׳:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**“A man has impregnated.”** That my father impregnated my mother. Concerning a female, it is customary to say הרתה, she conceived, and concerning a male, it is customary to say, הורה, he impregnated the female.


###### Rashi on Job 3:3:5
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**וְהַלַּיְלָה אָמַר.** זֶה אֶחָד מִן הַמְּקוֹמוֹת שֶׁחִסֵּר הַמִּקְרָא אֶת דְּבָרָיו, מִפְּנֵי שֶׁלֹּא הֻצְרַךְ לְפָרֵשׁ מִי הוּא; וּמְלִיצָתוֹ: אָמַר הָאוֹמֵר. (וְדוֹמֶה לוֹ ״הֲיָרֻצוּן בַּסֶּלַע סוּסִים אִם יַחֲרוֹשׁ בַּבְּקָרִים״ (עמוס ו:יב)) – הָיָה לוֹ לוֹמַר: אִם יַחֲרוֹשׁ אָדָם בַּבְּקָרִים. וְרַבּוֹתֵינוּ זִכְרוֹנָם לִבְרָכָה אָמְרוּ (נדה טז:): מַלְאָךְ הַמְמֻנֶּה עַל הַהֵרָיוֹן, ׳לַיְלָה׳ שְׁמוֹ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and the night when one said** This is one of the places where Scripture abbreviates its words because it is unnecessary to explain who [the subject] is, and the expression means, “the sayer said.” [Similar to this is (Amos. 6:12), “Will horses run on the rock, or will one plow with cattle?” He should have said, “Will a man plow with cattle?”] However, our Sages said, “The angel appointed over conception is named Laylah.”


###### Rashi on Job 3:4:1
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**הַיּוֹם הַהוּא יְהִי חֹשֶׁךְ.** תָּמִיד בְּכָל שָׁנָה, כְּשֶׁיַּגִּיעַ אוֹתוֹ יוֹם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**May that day be dark** constantly; every year, when that day arrives.


###### Rashi on Job 3:4:2
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**אַל יִדְרְשֵׁהוּ אֱלוֹהַּ מִמָּעַל.** לְטוֹבָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**let God not seek it from above** for good.


###### Rashi on Job 3:4:3
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**וְאַל תּוֹפַע עָלָיו נְהָרָה.** אוֹרָה, כְּמוֹ ״צֹהַר״ (בראשית ו:טז), וּמְתַרְגְּמִינָן ״נִיהוֹר״ (תרגום אונקלוס):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and let no light shine upon it** Heb. נהרה, light, like צהר, which is translated נהור.


###### Rashi on Job 3:5:1
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**יִגְאָלֻהוּ.** כְּמוֹ ״לֶחֶם מְגֹאָל״ (מלאכי א:ז), ״בַּמֶּה גֵאַלְנוּךָ״ (מלאכי א:ז), וְהוּא לְשׁוֹן לִכְלוּךְ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**defile it** Heb. יגאלהו, like (Malachi 1:7), “defiled (מגאל) bread”; “How have we defiled You (גאלנוך)?” an expression of contamination.


###### Rashi on Job 3:5:2
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**צַלְמָוֶת.** צֵל שֶׁל מָוֶת (חֹשֶׁךְ), שֶׁאֵינוֹ מֵאִיר לְעוֹלָם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**the shadow of death** Heb. צלמות, the shadow of death, darkness that never lights up.


###### Rashi on Job 3:5:3
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**עֲנָנָה.** אֲפֵלָה:


###### Rashi on Job 3:5:4
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**כְּמְרִירֵי יוֹם.** שֵׁדִים הַמּוֹשְׁלִים בַּצָּהֳרַיִם, כְּמוֹ ״קֶטֶב מְרִירִי״ (דברים לב:כד), וְהוּא מוֹשֵׁל בַּצָּהֳרַיִם, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר ״וּמִקֶּטֶב יָשׁוּד צָהֳרָיִם״ (תהלים צא:ו):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**like demons of the day** Heb. כמרירי, demons who rule at noon, like (Deut. 32: 34), “Ketev Meriri,” who rules at noon; as it is stated (Ps. 91:6): “from Ketev, who rules at noontime.”


###### Rashi on Job 3:6:1
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**אַל יִחַדְּ.** אַל יִשְׂמַח, כְּמוֹ ״וַיִּחַדְּ יִתְרוֹ״ (שמות יח:ט). פֵּרוּשׁ אַחֵר: אַל יִתְאַחֵד (סא״א):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**it shall not rejoice among the days** Heb. אל יחד, it shall not rejoice, as in (Exod. 18:9), “And Jethro rejoiced (וַיִחַד).” (Another explanation is: It shall not join. This does not appear in certain editions.)


###### Rashi on Job 3:7:1
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**גַּלְמוּד.** יָחִיד, וְחָסֵר מֵאָדָם וּמִכָּל בְּרִיָּה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**lonely** Alone and lacking any man or creature.


###### Rashi on Job 3:8:1
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**יִקְּבֻהוּ.** יְקַלְלוּהוּ, כְּמוֹ ״קָבָה לִי״ (במדבר כב:יז):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**curse it** Heb. יקבהו, curse it, as in (Num. 22:17), “curse (קבה) for me.”


###### Rashi on Job 3:8:2
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**אוֹרְרֵי יוֹם.** הַמְקַלְּלִים אֶת יְמֵיהֶם, לְפִי שֶׁהֵם מְכַוְּנִים לְקַלֵּל קְלָלָה מִתּוֹךְ צַעֲרָם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**those who curse the day** Those who curse their days, since they intend to pronounce a curse because of their anguish.


###### Rashi on Job 3:8:3
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**הָעֲתִידִים עוֹרֵר לִוְיָתָן.** לִהְיוֹת עֲרִירִים בְּמַחְבַּרְתָּם, לְיַחֵד לִוּוּי שֶׁלָּהֶם מֵחֶבְרַת אִישׁ וְאִשְׁתּוֹ, מֵאֵין בָּנִים. וּבַגְּמָרָא יְרוּשַׁלְמִי רָאִיתִי (מועד קטן א,ה): **עוֹרֵר לִוְיָתָן.** לְקוֹנֵן עַל לִוּוּי שֶׁלָּהֶם כְּשֶׁיָּמוּת, כְּמוֹ (מועד קטן ח.): לֹא יְעַרְעֵר עַל מֵתוֹ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**those destined to be childless in their union** Heb. ערר לויתן, to be childless (ערירים) in their union; to join their mate in the union of man and wife, without children. And I saw in the Jerusalem Talmud (Moed Katan 1:5) that עֹרֵר means, to lament their mate when he dies, as in (Moed Katan 1:6): A person may not inspire lamentations (יערער) for his dead relative.


###### Rashi on Job 3:9:1
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**נִשְׁפּוֹ.** חֹשֶׁךְ אִישׁוֹנוֹ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**its evening** Heb. נשפו, the darkness of its night.


###### Rashi on Job 3:9:2
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**בְּעַפְעַפֵּי.** בְּזָהֳרוּרֵי, כְּמוֹ ״וְעַפְעַפֵּינוּ יִזְּלוּ מָיִם״ (ירמיהו ט:יז):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**the rays of** Heb. עפעפי, rays of, like (Jer. 9:17), “and our eyelids (or pupils) (ועפעפינו) gush water.”


###### Rashi on Job 3:10:1
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**כִּי לֹא סָגַר.** מִי שֶׁיְּכֹלֶת בְּיָדוֹ לִסְגּוֹר. וְגַם זֶה מִן הַמִּקְרָאוֹת דּוֹמִין לְ״הַלַּיְלָה אָמַר״ (לעיל ג:ג):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**For He did not shut** He Who was able to shut. This too is one of the verses that resemble “the night when one said” (verse 2).


###### Rashi on Job 3:10:2
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**דַּלְתֵי בִטְנִי.** שֶׁיָּצָאתִי מִמֶּנּוּ, שֶׁאִם עָשָׂה כֵּן, **וַיַּסְתֵּר עָמָל מֵעֵינָי**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**the doors of my womb** from which I emerged, for had He done so, He would have hidden trouble from my eyes.


###### Rashi on Job 3:11:1
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**לָמָּה לֹא מֵרֶחֶם אָמוּת.** מִיצִיאָתִי מֵרֶחֶם (הָיִיתִי) מוּכָן לָמוּת מִיָּד. וּמְדַבֵּר בִּלְשׁוֹן עָתִיד, כְּאִלּוּ עוֹמֵד עַכְשָׁיו בְּיוֹם יְצִיאַת הָרֶחֶם, וְאוֹמֵר: (לָמָּה) לֹא אָמוּת עַתָּה, וְלָמָּה לֹא מִבֶּטֶן יָצָאתִי וְאֶגְוָע. לָמָּה לֹא הָיְתָה לִי גְּוִיעָה מוּכֶנֶת:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Why did I not die from the womb?** why was I not ready to die immediately upon my emergence from the womb? He speaks in the future tense, as though he were standing now on the day of his emergence from the womb and saying, “Why will I not die now, and why did I not... **emerge from the belly and perish?”** Why was my death not imminent?


###### Rashi on Job 3:12:1
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**מַדּוּעַ קִדְּמוּנִי.** בִּרְכֵּי אִמִּי קוֹדֶם לְמִיתָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Why did knees receive me** Why did the knees of my mother receive me before my death?


###### Rashi on Job 3:12:2
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**כִּי אִינָק.** נִגְזַר עָלַי לִינֹק מֵהֶם. לְפִי שֶׁהוּא מְדַבֵּר בְּיוֹם לֵידָה, הוּא מַזְכִּיר דְּבָרִים שֶׁל אַחֲרָיו בִּלְשׁוֹן עָתִיד:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**that I should suck** [Why] was it decreed upon me to suck them? As he is speaking on the day of his birth, he mentions those subsequent events in the future tense.


###### Rashi on Job 3:13:1
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**שָׁכַבְתִּי.** הָיִיתִי שׁוֹכֵב בַּקֶּבֶר:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**I would be lying** Heb. ושכבתי, I would be lying in the grave.


###### Rashi on Job 3:14:1
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**הַבּוֹנִים חֳרָבוֹת לָמוֹ.** זֶהוּ דֶּרֶךְ לְמַעֲמִידֵי שֵׁם, לִבְנוֹת עָרִים נֶחֱרָבוֹת לְזִכָּרוֹן לָהֶם; כְּמוֹ ״וּבָנוּ מִמְּךָ חָרְבוֹת עוֹלָם וְקֹרֵא לְךָ גֹּדֵר פֶּרֶץ״ (ישעיה נח:יב). כְּלוֹמַר: עִם שָׂרִים וּבַעֲלֵי שֵׁם. אוֹ הַלְוַאי שֶׁלֹּא נוֹדַעְתִּי וְאֶהְיֶה כְּנֵפֶל. וּמַה שֶּׁכָּתַב לֹא אֶהְיֶה **כְנֵפֶל טָמוּן** – מִפְּנֵי שֶׁעוֹמֵד עַל לָשׁוֹן שֶׁהִתְחִיל לְדַבֵּר, בִּלְשׁוֹן תֵּימַהּ; וּמוּסָב עַל **לָמָּה לֹּא, מַדּוּעַ קִדְּמוּנִי בִרְכָּיִם**, אוֹ מַדּוּעַ לֹא אֶהְיֶה **כְנֵפֶל טָמוּן**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**who build ruins for themselves** It is customary for those who seek fame to rebuild ruined cities as a memorial for themselves, as in (Isa. 58: 12), “And those coming from you shall be called the repairer of the breaches.” That is to say, with princes and famous people. Or, would that I was unknown, and I would be like a stillborn. What Scripture states: I was not like a hidden stillborn, is because it continues with the language with which it started to speak, viz. in the interrogative, and it refers to “Why did knees receive me...or why was I not like a hidden stillborn child?”


###### Rashi on Job 3:16:1
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**כְּעוֹלְלִים.** תִּינוֹקוֹת. וּלְכָךְ קוֹרֵא אוֹתָם עוֹלְלִים, שֶׁכֻּלָּם שְׂחוֹק וְלִכְלוּךְ; כְּמוֹ ״וְעֹלַלְתִּי בֶעָפָר״ (איוב טז:טו), וּכְמוֹ ״וַיִּתְעַלְּלוּ בָהּ כָּל הַלָּיְלָה״ (שופטים יט:כה):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**like infants** Heb. כעוללים, infants. He calls them עוללים because they are all play and dirt, like (below 16:15), “And I sullied (ועללתי) with dust,” and like (Jud. 19:25), “and abused (ויתעללו) her the entire night.”


###### Rashi on Job 3:17:1
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**חָדְלוּ רֹגֶז.** נִמְנָעִים מֵרוּגְזָם, שֶׁהָיוּ נוֹהֲגִים וּרְגִילִים לְהַרְגִּיז בָּאָרֶץ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**cease from anger** They restrain their anger, with which they were accustomed and wont to cause anger in the earth.


###### Rashi on Job 3:17:2
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**וְשָׁם יָנוּחוּ.** וְשָׁם נָחוּ, דָּבָר הַהוֹוֶה כְּתָבוֹ בִּלְשׁוֹן עָתִיד:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and there...rest** Heb. ינוחו, and there rested. Something that occurs regularly is written in the future tense.


###### Rashi on Job 3:19:1
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**קָטֹן וְגָדוֹל שָׁם.** שָׁם נִכָּר מִי חָשׁוּב וּמִי שָׁפָל, וּלְפִי שֶׁאוֹתָהּ גְּדֻלָּה גְּדֻלַּת עוֹלָם הוּא, וְאוֹתוֹ שִׁפְלוּת שִׁפְלוּת עוֹלָם הִיא:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Small and great are there** There it is obvious who is esteemed and who is humble, and since that greatness is perpetual greatness, and that humility is perpetual humility...


###### Rashi on Job 3:20:1
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**לָמָּה יִתֵּן.** הַנּוֹתֵן, וְהוּא הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Why does He give** (the giver, i.e., the Holy One, blessed be He.)


###### Rashi on Job 3:20:2
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**לְעָמָל אוֹר.** לְמִי שֶׁגָּדַל בְּעָמָל וְצָרָה, לָמָּה נוֹתֵן לוֹ אוֹר עוֹלָם, וְלֹא הֱמִיתוֹ בְּהִוָּלְדוֹ?

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**the toiler light** He who grew up with toil and trouble—why did He give him perpetual light and not slay him at birth?


###### Rashi on Job 3:21:1
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**הַמְחַכִּים לַמָּוֶת.** לְמָרֵי נֶפֶשׁ הַתְּאֵבִים וּמִתְאַוִּים לַמָּוֶת, וְקוֹבְלִים לֵאמֹר: **אֵינֶנּוּ**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Who await death** to those of bitter spirit, who long for and desire death and complain, saying, “it is not here.”


###### Rashi on Job 3:21:2
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**וַיַּחְפְּרֻהוּ.** מְרַגְּלִים אַחֲרָיו:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and they spy after it** Heb. ויתפרהו, and they spy after it.


###### Rashi on Job 3:21:3
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**מִמַּטְמוֹנִים.** יוֹתֵר מִשֶּׁמְּרַגְּלִים אַחַר מַטְמוֹנֵי אוֹצָרוֹת. וְהָיוּ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**more than after hidden treasures** More than people spy after hidden treasures.


###### Rashi on Job 3:22:1
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**שְׂמֵחִים אֱלֵי גִיל.** וְיָשִׂישׂוּ אִם הָיוּ מוֹצְאִים קָבֶר:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Those who are happy over joyous occurrences** and rejoice if they find a grave.


###### Rashi on Job 3:22:2
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**אֱלֵי גִיל.** בִּשְׁבִיל הַגִּילָה וְהַשָּׂשׂוֹן שֶׁל **מְצִיאַת קָבֶר**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**over joyous occurrences** Because of the joy and the happiness of finding a grave.


###### Rashi on Job 3:23:1
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**לְגֶבֶר אֲשֶׁר דַּרְכּוֹ נִסְתָּרָה.** כָּל טוֹבוֹת אֲשֶׁר פָּעַל, נִסְתְּרוּ מֵאֵת בַּעַל הַגְּמוּל, וְלֹא הִבִּיט בָּהֶם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**for a man whose way is hidden** All the good deeds that he performed were hidden from the Great Recompenser, and He did not look at them.


###### Rashi on Job 3:23:2
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**וַיָּסֶךְ אֱלוֹהַּ בַּעֲדוֹ.** עָשָׂה מְחִיצָּה לְפָנָיו, לְסוֹגְרוֹ בְּמַסְגֵּר. כְּמוֹ ״הִנְנִי שָׂךְ אֶת דַּרְכֵּךְ״ (הושע ב:ח):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and God hedged him in** He made a wall in front of him to shut him up in a prison, as in (Hos. 2:8) “Behold I will close off your way.”


###### Rashi on Job 3:24:1
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**תָּבֹא.** בָּאָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**comes** Heb. תבא, lit. shall come.


###### Rashi on Job 3:24:2
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**וַיִּתְּכוּ.** לְשׁוֹן ״נִתַּךְ אַרְצָה״ (שמות ט:לג), נִגָּרִים וְיוֹרְדִים כַּמַּיִם. וְיֵשׁ לְפָרֵשׁ ׳נְתִיכָה׳ לְשׁוֹן ׳רִבְּיָה׳:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**pour** An expression of (Exod. 9:33) “pour (נתך) to the ground.” They run and descend like water. The word ויתכו may also be interpreted as an expression denoting abundance.


###### Rashi on Job 3:25:1
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**פַּחַד פָּחַדְתִּי.** כָּל יָמַי עָמַדְתִּי בְּפַחַד עַל זֶה, כְּמוֹ שֶׁאָמַרְנוּ ״וַיְהִי כִּי הִקִּיפוּ וְגוֹ׳״ (איוב א:ה):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**the thing I feared** All my life, I stood in fear of this, as I said (1:5): “Now it would come about, when the cycle of the feasting would days be over, etc.”


###### Rashi on Job 3:25:2
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**וַאֲשֶׁר יָגֹרְתִּי.** הֵן עַתָּה הוּעְתַּד וְנִגְזַר שֶׁיָּבֹא לִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
What I dreaded—Behold!


###### Rashi on Job 3:26:1
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**לֹא שָׁלַוְתִּי.** מִדְּאָגָה זוֹ, וְהִנֵּה **וַיָּבֹא רֹגֶז**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**I was not at ease** from this worry, and behold, trouble has come.