## Rashi on Job Chapter 30

###### Rashi on Job 30:2:1
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**גַּם כֹּחַ יְדֵיהֶם לָמָּה.** הָיָה לִי בְּאוֹתָן הַיָּמִים רְשָׁעִים הָיוּ, וְלֹא תּוֹעֶלֶת בָּהֶם; כִּי פֻּרְעָנוּת בָּא עַל יָדָם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Moreover, why did I need the strength of their hands** in those days they were wicked, and they were useless, for trouble came because of them.


###### Rashi on Job 30:2:2
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**עָלֵימוֹ אָבַד כָּלַח.** זִקְנָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**old age** Heb. כָּלַח, old age.


###### Rashi on Job 30:3:1
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**בְּחֶסֶר וּבְכָפָן.** הָיוּ גַּלְמוּד:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Because of want and because of hunger** they were in solitude.


###### Rashi on Job 30:3:2
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**הָעוֹרְקִים צִיָּה.** שֶׁמַּבְרִיחִין אוֹתָן בְּיָמָיו מִקֶּרֶב בְּנֵי אָדָם, לֵילֵךְ בַּחֹשֶׁךְ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**they would flee to desolation** For in his days, they would drive them from civilization to go in darkness.


###### Rashi on Job 30:3:3
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**אֶמֶשׁ שׁוֹאָה וּמְשׁוֹאָה.** בְּרוּאִינָ״א בְּלַעַ״ז:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**darkness of waste and desolation** broine in Old French, obscurity.


###### Rashi on Job 30:4:1
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**הַקּוֹטְפִים מַלּוּחַ עֲלֵי שִׂיחַ.** בִּהְיוֹתָם בַּמִּדְבָּרוֹת הָיוּ קוֹטְפִים לָהֶם מְלוּחִים עַל אִילָנוֹת הַיְּעָרִים וְאוֹכְלִים. **מַלּוּחַ** שֵׁם עֵשֶׂב הוּא, וּבִלְשׁוֹן אֲרַמִּי נִקְרָא קָקוּלִין (ירושלמי פאה ד), וּבִלְשׁוֹן מִשְׁנָה מְלוּחִים, מַצוֹ״שׁ בְּלַעַ״ז, כְּאוֹתָהּ שֶׁשָּׁנִינוּ (קדושין סו.): הֶעֱלוּ מְלוּחִים עַל שֻׁלְחָנוֹת שֶׁל זָהָב:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**They pluck salt-wort on shrubs** When they were in the deserts, they would pluck for themselves salt-wort [that grew] on the trees of the forests and eat. **salt-wort** Heb. מלוח. It is the name of an herb. In Aramaic (Pes. 114a), it is called קַקוּלִין and in the language of the Mishnah מַלוּחִים (malves in French), mallows, as we learned in (Kiddushin 66a): “They brought up mallows on golden tables.”


###### Rashi on Job 30:4:2
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**שִׂיחַ.** אִילָן, כְּמוֹ ״אַחַד הַשִּׂיחִים״ (בראשית כא:טו):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**shrubs** a tree, like (Gen. 21:15), “under one of the shrubs (השיחים).”


###### Rashi on Job 30:5:1
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**מִן גֵּו.** מִן קֶרֶב עִיר הָיוּ נִגְרָשִׁין:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**from the midst** From the midst of the city they were driven.


###### Rashi on Job 30:6:1
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**בַּעֲרוּץ נְחָלִים.** יֵשׁ אֶרֶץ מְלוּחָה, מִתְבַּקַּעַת, שֶׁשָּׁם הָיוּ שׁוֹכְבִים **בְּחוֹרֵי הֶעָפָר** וְחוֹרֵי נְקִיקֵי הַסְּלָעִים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**in the crevices of the valleys** There is a salty land that splits, where they would lie in the holes in the earth and the holes in the crevices of the rocks.


###### Rashi on Job 30:6:2
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**וְכֵפִים.** תַּרְגּוּם שֶׁל ״סְלָעִים״ (מלכים א יט:יא). דָּבָר אַחֵר: **בַּעֲרוּץ נְחָלִים.** הוּא הַנְּקִיק שֶׁעוֹשֶׂה הַנַּחַל סְבִיבוֹתָיו:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and rocks** Heb. וכפים, the Aramaic translation of סלעים, rocks. (Another explanation:) **in the crevice of the streams** That is the crevice that the stream makes around itself.


###### Rashi on Job 30:7:1
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**חָרוּל יְסֻפָּחוּ.** אוֹרְשִׁיאַ״שׁ בְּלַעַ״ז. הָיוּ נֶאֱסָפִים, כְּמוֹ ״וְנִסְפְּחוּ עַל בֵּית יַעֲקֹב״ (ישעיהו יד:א):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**under the nettles they gather** (Orties in French), nettles. They would gather, as in (Isa. 14:1), “and join (ונספחו) the house of Jacob.”


###### Rashi on Job 30:8:1
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**נִכְאוּ.** בְּיָמַי מִן הָאָרֶץ, שֶׁהָיִיתִי מַשְׁפִּילָם; לְשׁוֹן ״נְכֵה רוּחַ״ (ישעיה סו:ב):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**were broken (in my days) from the land** for I would humble them. [נִכְאוּ is] an expression of (Isa. 66:2), “of crushed spirit (נכה רוח).”


###### Rashi on Job 30:11:1
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**כִּי יִתְרִי פִּתַּח.** יֶתֶר קַשְׁתִּי פִּתַּח (כְּמוֹ שֶׁאָמַרְתִּי לְמַעְלָה וְקַשְׁתִּי תַּחְלִיף), כְּלוֹמַר: כֹּחִי הֵתִישׁ מִי שֶׁבְּיָדוֹ לַעֲשׂוֹת:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**For He untied my bowstring** He untied the string of my bow (that I said above that my bow would become stronger); i.e., He weakened my strength—He Who has the power to do so.


###### Rashi on Job 30:11:2
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**וְרֶסֶן מִפָּנַי שִׁלֵּחוּ.** רִסְנִי שֶׁהָיוּ מְרֻסָּנִים בּוֹ, שִׁלְּחוּהוּ מִפָּנַי, כִּי אֵינָם יְרֵאִים מֵעַתָּה מִמֶּנִּי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and they have cast off the bridle** My bridle, with which they were bridled to me—they cast it off before me because they no longer fear me.


###### Rashi on Job 30:12:1
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**עַל יָמִין.** עַל יְמִינִי עוֹמְדִים פִּרְחָחִים קְטַנִּים, כִּשְׁאָר הֶדְיוֹטִים; שֶׁאֵינִי חָשׁוּב בְּעֵינֵיהֶם לְהִכָּנַע מִפָּנַי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**On my right** on my right, stand “little sprouts” as [with] any other simple person, because I am no longer so esteemed in their sight [that they] subordinate themselves before Me.


###### Rashi on Job 30:12:2
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**רַגְלַי שִׁלֵּחוּ.** אִם הַמָּקוֹם צַר לָהֶם, דּוֹחֲפִים אוֹתִי הָלְאָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**they push away my feet** If the place is crowded, they push me away.


###### Rashi on Job 30:12:3
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**וַיָּסֹלּוּ עָלַי אָרְחוֹת אֵידָם.** כָּל דֶּרֶךְ נְבָלָה שֶׁיֵּשׁ לָהֶם לַעֲשׂוֹת, עוֹשִׂים מְסִלָּתָן לְפָנַי וְאֶצְלִי, וְלֹא יִירָאוּ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and they cast up against me their ways of destruction** Any shameful way [i.e., act] that they have to do, they make their way before me or beside me [to perform it] and they have no fear.


###### Rashi on Job 30:13:1
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**נָתְסוּ נְתִיבָתִי.** הַטּוֹבָה וְאֵין חוֹשְׁשִׁין לָהּ, נָתְסוּ כְּמוֹ ״נָתְצוּ״ (מלכים ב כה:י) וְסָמֶ״ךְ מִתְחַלֶּפֶת בְּצָדִ״י:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**They break up my path** Heb. נתסוּ. [My] good [path] and do not care for it. נתסוּ is like נתצוּ the “sammech” replacing the “zaddi.”


###### Rashi on Job 30:13:2
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**לְהַוָּתִי יוֹעִילוּ.** לְהַקְנִיטֵנִי מוֹסִיפִין:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**they serve to increase my calamity** they continue to provoke me.


###### Rashi on Job 30:14:1
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**כְּפֶרֶץ רָחָב.** שֶׁבַּגָּדֵר שֶׁהַכֹּל בָּאִים וְעוֹבְרִים שָׁם, כֵּן **יֶאֱתָיוּ** יַחַד עָלַי לְהַכְלִימֵנִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**As [through] a wide breach** in a fence, through which everyone comes and passes through, so they come together against me to embarrass me.


###### Rashi on Job 30:14:2
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**תַּחַת שׁוֹאָה הִתְגַּלְגָּלוּ.** כְּלוֹמַר: מִתְגַּלְגְּלִים וּבָאִין בְּסֵתֶר, עַד שֶׁמַּגִּיעִין אֶצְלִי לְהַקְנִיטֵנִי, כְּדֵי שֶׁלֹּא אֶשָּׁמֵט מֵהֶם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**under darkness they roll** i.e., they come rolling along in secret until they reach me, to provoke me, so that I should not be able to escape from them.


###### Rashi on Job 30:15:1
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**הָהְפַּךְ עָלַי.** נֶהְפַּךְ עָלַי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**turned upon me** Heb. הָהְפַךְ, [equivalent to] נֶהְפַּךְ.


###### Rashi on Job 30:15:2
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**בַּלָּהוֹת.** שֵׁדִים:

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


###### Rashi on Job 30:15:3
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**תִּרְדֹּף כָּרוּחַ.** רָעָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**as a spirit** An evil [spirit].


###### Rashi on Job 30:15:4
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**אֶת נְדִיבָתִי.** רוּחַ נְדִיבָה שֶׁהָיָה שׁוֹרָה עָלַי מִתְּחִלָּה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**my nobility** The noble spirit that rested upon me from the beginning.


###### Rashi on Job 30:16:1
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**וְעַתָּה.** אֶל הַצָּרָה הַזֹּאת תִּשְׁתַּפֵּךְ נַפְשִׁי, כְּאָדָם שֶׁתִּתְפַּעֵם רוּחוֹ; **כִּי יֹאחֲזוּנִי**, וְכוֹפִין אוֹתִי לְהִשְׁתַּפֵּל נַפְשִׁי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**And now** to this trouble my soul pours out like a man whose spirit is troubled, for...


###### Rashi on Job 30:16:2
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**יְמֵי עֹנִי.** שֶׁאֲנִי בָּהֶם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**days of affliction** in which I am [now] seize me and coerce me to pour out my soul.


###### Rashi on Job 30:17:1
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**נִקַּר.** כְּמוֹ ״הַעֵינֵי הָאֲנָשִׁים הָהֵם תְּנַקֵּר״ (במדבר טז:יד). **נִקַּר.** פוֹרִיי״ר בְּלַעַ״ז; הַתּוֹלָעִים מְנַקְּרִין בְּשָׂרִי מֵעַל עַצְמִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**are picked off** Heb. נקר, like (Num. 16:14), “will you put out (תנקר) the eyes of those people?” (forer in French, to bore). The worms pick my flesh off my bones.


###### Rashi on Job 30:17:2
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**וְעֹרְקַי.** גִּידַי, אֵין לָהֶם מְנוּחָה. ׳גִּיד׳ בִּלְשׁוֹן עֲרָבִי ׳עוֹרֶק׳; כָּךְ פֵּירֵשׁ דּוּנַשׁ. לָשׁוֹן אַחֵר: **עֹרְקַי.** רוֹדְפַי, הַמַּבְרִיחִין אוֹתִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**my sinews** Heb. עֹרְקַי. My sinews have no rest. Sinew in Arabic is “orek.” So did Dunash explain it (Teshuvoth Dunash p.85). Another explanation: עֹרְקַי, my pursuers who cause me to flee. (Machbereth Menachem p. 139)


###### Rashi on Job 30:18:1
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**יִתְחַפֵּשׂ לְבוּשִׁי.** מִשְׁתַּנֶּה לְבוּשִׁי, גֶּלֶד אַחַר גֶּלֶד; כְּשֶׁאָדָם פּוֹשֵׁט אֶת בְּגָדָיו וְלוֹבֵשׁ בְּגָדִים אֲחֵרִים, מְשֻׁנִּים מֵרִאשׁוֹנִים, קוֹרֵא אוֹתָם ׳בִּגְדֵי חֹפֶשׂ׳; כְּמוֹ ״הִתְחַפֵּשׂ וָבֹא בַמִּלְחָמָה״ (מלכים א כב:ל), וּמְתֻרְגָּם: ״אִשְׁתַּנִּי״ (תרגום יונתן):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**is my garment changed** My “garment” changes, layer after layer. When a person removes his garments and puts on other garments different from the first ones, he calls these בִּגְדֵי חֹפֶשׁ, like (I Kings 22:30), “I will disguise myself (התחפש) and go into battle.” This is translated into Aramaic by the word אשתני, I will change.


###### Rashi on Job 30:18:2
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**כְּפִי כֻתָּנְתִּי יַאַזְרֵנִי.** שֶׁאוֹזֵר וּמַעֲנִיק צַוָּארִי, כֵּן יַאַזְרֵנִי אוֹתִי לְבוּשִׁי כָּל סְבִיבִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**like the opening of my shirt it girds me** Like the opening of my shirt, which girds and encompasses my neck, so do my garments gird me all around.


###### Rashi on Job 30:19:1
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**הוֹרָנִי לַחֹמֶר.** הוֹרָנִי יְלַמְּדֵנִי הַשְּׁחִין הַזֶּה לֵישֵׁב כְּמוֹ בַחֹמֶר, כְּמוֹ שֶׁאָמַרְנוּ ״וְהוּא יוֹשֵׁב בְּתוֹךְ הָאֵפֶר״ (איוב ב:ח). דָּבָר אַחֵר: **הוֹרָנִי לַחֹמֶר** פֵּירוּשׁוֹ: הִשְׁלִיכַנִי, לְשׁוֹן ״יָרָה בַיָּם״ (שמות טו:ד):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**It directed me to the mud** These boils directed me and taught me to sit in the mud, as we said above (2:8). “and he sat down in the ashes.” Another explanation: הוֹרַנִי means: it cast me, an expression of (Exod. 15:4), “He cast (ירה) into the sea.”


###### Rashi on Job 30:19:2
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**וָאֶתְמַשֵּׁל.** נִדְמֵיתִי. וּבְמִדְרַשׁ רַבִּי תַּנְחוּמָא (תנחומא בובר, וישלח ח): אָמַר רַבִּי בֶּרֶכְיָה: סָרֵס אֶת הַמִּקְרָא: אֲנִי נִמְשַׁלְתִּי לְאַבְרָהָם בְּצִדְקָתִי שֶׁקָּרָא עַצְמוֹ ״עָפָר וָאֵפֶר״ (בראשית יח:כז), וְהוּא דָּנַנִּי כְּרִשְׁעֵי דּוֹר הַפְּלַגָּה (שֶׁמָּרְדוּ בּוֹ בְּבִנְיַן הַמִּגְדָּל) שֶׁכָּתוּב בָּהֶם ״וְהַחֵמָר הָיָה לָהֶם לַחֹמֶר״ (בראשית יא:ג):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and I was compared** Was likened. And in the Midrash of Rabbi Tanchuma (Buber, Vayishlach 8): Said Rabbi Berechiah, “Transpose the verse.” I was compared to Abraham in my righteousness, who called himself dust and ashes (Gen.18:27), and He judges me like the wicked of the Generation of the Dispersion (who rebelled against Him by building the tower), concerning whom it is written (Gen. 11:3): “and the mortar served them as clay.”


###### Rashi on Job 30:20:1
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**עָמַדְתִּי.** לִרְאוֹת, לִשְׁתּוֹק וּלְהָבִין; כְּמוֹ ״וּבְפִתְחוֹ עָמְדוּ כָל הָעָם״ (נחמיה ח:ה), וְ״לֹא עָנוּ עוֹד״ (איוב לב:טו):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**I stood** to see, to remain silent, and to understand, as in (Neh. 8:5), “And when he opened [it], all the people stood,” and no longer replied.


###### Rashi on Job 30:20:2
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**וַתִּתְבּוֹנֵן בִּי.** מְחַשֵּׁב עָלַי לִשְׁנוֹת אֶת נְגָעַי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and You ponder me** You think about me to change my plagues.


###### Rashi on Job 30:22:1
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**תִּשָּׂאֵנִי אֶל רוּחַ.** שֵׁדִים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**You lift me up to the spirit** of the demons.


###### Rashi on Job 30:22:2
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**תַּרְכִּיבֵנִי וּתְמֹגְגֵנִי תּוּשִׁיָּה.** חַלָּשׁוּת וְתַשּׁוּת כֹּחַ הָיָה מְמוֹגְגֵנִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**You cause me to ride [on it], and weakness melts me away** Weakness and feebleness of strength melted me away.


###### Rashi on Job 30:22:3
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**וּתְמוֹגְגֵנִי תּוּשִׁיָּה.** לְשׁוֹן נְקֵבָה, וְעַל תּוּשִׁיָּה עוֹמֵד. וְאֵין תָּי״ו זוֹ כְּתָי״ו שֶׁל **תִּשָּׂאֵנִי**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and weakness melts me away** Heb. ותמגגני, a feminine form, the subject of which is תֻּשִיָה, and this “tav” is not like the “tav” of “You lift me up (תשאני).”


###### Rashi on Job 30:23:1
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**כִּי יָדַעְתִּי.** כִּי יוֹדֵעַ הָיִיתִי אֲשֶׁר **לַמָּוֶת תְּשִׁיבֵנִי**, מָקוֹם שֶׁהוּא **מוֹעֵד לְכָל חָי.** בַּקֶּבֶר:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**For I knew** For I knew that You would return me to death, a place which is a meeting place for all living, namely the grave.


###### Rashi on Job 30:24:1
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**אַךְ לֹא בְעִי.** וּבַהַשְׁחָתָה הָיָה רָגִיל הַשּׁוֹפֵט לִשְׁלֹחַ יָד, כְּמוֹ ״לְעִי הַשָּׂדֶה״ (מיכה א:ו):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**But not with destruction** was the Judge accustomed to stretch forth His hand; with destruction, like (Micah 1:6), “into a heap (לעי) in the field.”


###### Rashi on Job 30:24:2
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**אִם בְּפִידוֹ.** אִם הָיָה שׁוֹלֵחַ פִּיד, שֶׁהוּא שֶׁבֶר, עַל בְּרִיּוֹתָיו:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**if with His misfortune** If He would send a misfortune, which is a breach upon His creatures.


###### Rashi on Job 30:24:3
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**לָהֶן שׁוּעַ.** הָיָה מְשַׁעֲשְׁעָן תַּנְחוּמִין בְּמִקְצָת. וְכֵן פֵּרְשׁוּ רַבּוֹתֵינוּ (ילקוט שמעוני איוב תתקיח): אֵין הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא מַכֶּה אוּמָּה וּמוֹשִׁיבָהּ צָדוּ, אֶלָּא מֵבִיא פִּיד לָזוֹ וּמְשַׁעֲשְׁעָהּ בַּחֲבֶרְתָּהּ שֶׁלָּקְתָה כְּבָר, וּמִתְנַחֶמֶת בָּהּ. הֵבִיא פִּיד לְאַשּׁוּר וְשִׁעֲשֵׁעַ בְּמִצְרַיִם, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר ״הֲתֵיטְבִי מִנֹּא אָמוֹן״ (נחום ג:ח); הֵבִיא פִּיד לְמִצְרַיִם וְשִׁעֲשֵׁעַ בְּאַשּׁוּר, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר ״הִנֵּה אַשּׁוּר... בַּלְּבָנוֹן״ (יחזקאל לא:ג). וְעוֹד יִפָּתֵר **לָהֶן שׁוּעַ.** תְּפִלָּה וּתְחִנָּה מוֹעֶלֶת בָּהֶם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**He would dandle them** He would dandle them with partial consolations. And so did our Sages (Pesikta d’Rav Kahana p. 1 27a) explain it: The Holy One, blessed be He, does not smite a nation and leave it desolate, but He brings misfortune to one and dandles it with its fellow that suffered already, and it is consoled thereby. He brought misfortune upon Assyria and dandled it with Egypt, as it is said (Nahum 3:8): “Are you better than the great No- Amon?” He brought misfortune upon Egypt and dandled them with Assyria, as it is said (Ezek. 31: 3): “Behold Assyria was [a cedar] in the Lebanon.” The words להן שוע may also be interpreted as: Prayer and supplication avail them.


###### Rashi on Job 30:25:1
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**אִם לֹא בָכִיתִי לִקְשֵׁה יוֹם.** יוֹדֵעַ וּמַכִּיר, אִם לֹא הָיִיתִי רַחֲמָנִי וּבוֹכֶה עַל עֲנִיִּים קְשֵׁי יוֹם, **וְעָגְמָה נַפְשִׁי לָאֶבְיוֹנִים.** כִּי עַל כָּל אֵלֶּה בָּאַתְנִי זֹאת:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**...whether I did not weep for one who had a difficult time** [You] know and recognize whether I was not compassionate and [did not] weep for the poor, who had difficult times, and [whether] my soul [did not] grieve for the needy, that this befell me because of all these.


###### Rashi on Job 30:26:1
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**כִּי טוֹב קִוִּיתִי וְגוֹ׳.** כְּלוֹמַר: כִּי הַגְּמוּל הַזֶּה רָאוּי לִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**For I hoped for good etc.** That is to say that this reward was fit for me.


###### Rashi on Job 30:27:1
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**וְלֹא דָמּוּ.** אֵין יְכוֹלִין לִדּוֹם וּלְהַחֲרִישׁ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and did not become silent** They cannot be silent.


###### Rashi on Job 30:28:1
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**בְּלֹא חַמָּה.** לֹא שְׁזָפַתְנִי הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ, וְהִנְנִי קוֹדֵר:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**without the sun** The sun did not gaze upon me, yet I am blackened.


###### Rashi on Job 30:29:1
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**אָח הָיִיתִי לְתַנִּים וְגוֹ׳.** תַּנִּים וּבְנוֹת יַעֲנָה עֲסוּקִים בִּבְכִי כָּל יְמֵיהֶם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**I was a brother to jackals etc.** Jackals and ostriches spend all their days wailing.


###### Rashi on Job 30:30:1
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**חָרָה.** לְשׁוֹן דָּבָר הַנִּחְרָה וּמִתְיַיבֵּשׁ מִפְּנֵי חוֹם הָאֵשׁ, כְּמוֹ ״נָחַר מַפֻּחַ״ (ירמיהו ו:כט), ״וְתוֹכוֹ נִחָר״ (יחזקאל טו:ד):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**dried out** Heb. חרה, an expression of a thing that is burned and dried through the heat of the fire, like (Jer. 6:29), “The bellows is heated (נחר)”; (Ezek. 15:4), “and the middle of it is burned (נחר).”