## Rashi on Job Chapter 31

###### Rashi on Job 31:1:1
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**בְּרִית כָּרַתִּי לְעֵינָי.** שֶׁלֹּא לְהִסְתַּכֵּל בְּאֵשֶׁת אִישׁ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**I made a covenant with my eyes** not to gaze upon a married woman.


###### Rashi on Job 31:1:2
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**וּמָה אֶתְבּוֹנֵן עַל בְּתוּלָה.** מָה לִּי לְהִתְבּוֹנֵן בָּהּ? כָּךְ הָיְתָה חֲסִידוּתִי, שֶׁלֹּא לָתֵת עַיִן אֲפִלּוּ בִּפְנוּיָה; שֶׁמָּא לְאַחַר יָמִים תִּנָּשֵׂא, וְנִמְצֵאתִי כָּרוּךְ אַחֲרֶיהָ. כָּךְ מְפֹרָשׁ בְּאָבוֹת דְּרַבִּי נָתָן (אבות דרבי נתן):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and why should I gaze upon a virgin?** Why should I gaze upon her? Such was Job’s piety, not to lay an eye even on an unmarried woman. [He would say,] “Perhaps, after a time, she will be married, and I will find myself attracted to her.” So is [this verse] explained in Avoth D’Rabbi Nathan (2:5).


###### Rashi on Job 31:2:1
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**וּמֶה חֵלֶק וְגוֹ׳.** שֶׁגְּמָלַנִי כָּךְ?

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Now what is the portion etc.** that He recompensed me so?


###### Rashi on Job 31:3:1
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**הֲלֹא אֵיד לְעַוָּל.** לוֹ רָאוּי, וְלֹא לִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Is not misfortune, for the unjust** He deserves it, not I.


###### Rashi on Job 31:3:2
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**וְנֵכֶר.** דּוּגְמַת ״וְאַל תֵּרֶא בְיוֹם אָחִיךָ בְּיוֹם נָכְרוֹ״ (עובדיה א:יב):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and deliverance** Heb. ונכר, after the pattern of (Obadiah 1:12) “[And] you should not have looked on the day of your brother on the day of his being delivered (נכרו).”


###### Rashi on Job 31:4:1
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**וְכָל צְעָדַי יִסְפּוֹר.** וְרוֹאֶה אִם הָלַכְתִּי עִם שָׁוְא:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and count all my steps** and see whether I went with falsehood.


###### Rashi on Job 31:5:1
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**וַתַּחַשׁ.** וַתְּמַהֵר, כְּמוֹ ״אֲחִישֶׁנָּה״ (ישעיה ס:כב); ״כִּי גָז חִישׁ״ (תהלים צ:י):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**hastened** Heb. ותחש, and hurried, like (Isa. 60:22), “I will hasten it (אחישנה)”; (Ps. 90:10) “for it is soon (חיש) cut off.”


###### Rashi on Job 31:7:1
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**מָאוּם.** הוּא מוּם, דְּבַר שֶׁמֶץ. וְאָלֶ״ף זוֹ כְּתוּבָה וְלֹא קְרִיָא בַּמָּסֹרֶת הַגְּדוֹלָה, וְהוּא מִגִּזְרַת **לֹא תֹאסִפוּן** (שמות ה:ז). אִם זוֹ עָשִׂיתִי, הָיִיתִי רָאוּי לָבֹא עָלַי קְלָלָה זוֹ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**wrong** Heb. מאום, that is a blemish, a shameful thing. This “alef” is written but not read, in the Great Masorah, and it is of the form of (Exod. 5:7), “You shall not continue (תאספון).” If I did this, I would deserve that this curse come upon me.


###### Rashi on Job 31:8:1
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**אֶזְרְעָה וְאַחֵר יֹאכֵל וְצֶאֱצָאַי יְשֹׁרָשׁוּ.** יֵעָקְרוּ הַשָּׁרָשִׁין:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**may I sow and another eat, and my produce be uprooted** their roots should be torn up.


###### Rashi on Job 31:9:1
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**וְעַל פֶּתַח רֵעִי אָרָבְתִּי.** לְאִשְׁתּוֹ – יָשִׁיב לִי גְּמוּלִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and if I lurked at my neighbor’s doorway** for his wife, He should requite me...


###### Rashi on Job 31:10:1
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**תִּטְחַן לְאַחֵר אִשְׁתִּי.** רַבּוֹתֵינוּ פֵּרְשׁוּהוּ (במדבר רבה ט:כד) לְשׁוֹן תַּשְׁמִישׁ, כְּמוֹ ״וַיְהִי טוֹחֵן בְּבֵית הָאֲסוּרִין״ (שופטים טז:כא):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**may my wife grind for someone else** Our Sages explained this as an expression of sexual intercourse, as in (Jud. 16:21), “and he did grind in the prison house.”


###### Rashi on Job 31:11:1
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**כִּי הִיא זִמָּה.** וְיָרֵא הָיִיתִי אִם עָשִׂיתִי, שֶׁהוּא **עָוֹן פְּלִילִי**, עָוֹן שֶׁמִּשְׁפַּט יִסּוּרִין רְאוּיִין לָבֹא עַל יָדוֹ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**For that is lewdness** and I feared that if I committed it, that **it is iniquity deserving punishment** iniquity for which judgment of suffering is fit to come.


###### Rashi on Job 31:12:1
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**וּבְכָל תְּבוּאָתִי תְשָׁרֵשׁ.** הָאֵשׁ הַזֹּאת, לָכֵן נִמְנַעְתִּי מֵעֲשׂוֹת. כְּשֶׁהוּא מְדַבֵּר בִּלְשׁוֹן עִקּוּר, אוֹמֵר תְּשָׁרֵשׁ; וּבִלְשׁוֹן שֹׁרֶשׁ אוֹמֵר ״תַּשְׁרֵשׁ״ (תהלים פ:י). וְכֵן ״יְשֹׁרָשׁוּ״ (איוב לא:ח) – לְשׁוֹן עִקּוּר; ״יַשְׁרֵשׁ״ (ישעיהו כז:ו) – לְשׁוֹן שֹׁרֶשׁ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and it uproots all my grain** i.e., this fire. Therefore, I refrained from committing [this sin]. When he speaks with an expression of uprooting, he says תְּשָׁרֵשׁ, and to express roots, he also uses תַּשְׁרֵשׁ. Similarly, יְשֹׁרָשׁוּ is an expression of uprooting and יַשְׁרִשׁוּ is an expression of a root.


###### Rashi on Job 31:14:1
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**וּמָה אֶעֱשֶׂה וְגוֹ׳.** זֹאת נָתַתִּי אֶל לִבִּי, וְכִי יִפְקֹד אֶת דְּרָכַי, **מָה אֲשִׁיבֶנּוּ**?

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**then what will I do etc.** I took this to heart, and when He visits, what will I answer Him?


###### Rashi on Job 31:15:1
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**וַיְכוֹנְנוּ בָרֶחֶם.** אֲנִי בְּבֶטֶן אִמִּי, וְהוּא בְּבֶטֶן אִמּוֹ, הֱכִינָנוּ יוֹצֵר אֶחָד:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and form us both in the womb?** I in my mother’s womb and he in his mother’s womb—did not One creator form us?


###### Rashi on Job 31:16:1
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**אֲכַלֶּה.** שֶׁלֹּא מִלֵּאתִי תַּאֲוָתָהּ, שֶׁהוּא כִּלְיוֹן עֵינַיִם. הַמִּתְאַוֶּה וְאֵינוֹ מַגִּיעַ, קָרוּי ״כִּלְיוֹן עֵינַיִם״ (דברים כח:סה):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**I cause...to fail** in that I did not fulfill her desire, which is “failure of the eyes.” One who desires and does not achieve is called “failure of the eyes.”


###### Rashi on Job 31:18:1
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**כִּי מִנְּעוּרַי גְּדֵלַנִי.** הַכִּשָּׁרוֹן הַזֶּה כְּאָב הַמְגַדְּלֵנִי וְהַמְלַמְּדֵנִי, כֵּן לִמְּדַנִי יֹשֶׁר לִבִּי מִנְּעוּרַי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**For, from my youth it raised me** This virtue [raised me] as a father who raises me and teaches me. So did the uprightness of my heart teach me from my youth.


###### Rashi on Job 31:18:2
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**וּמִבֶּטֶן אִמִּי אַנְחֶנָּה.** לְמִדָּה זוֹ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and from my mother’s womb I led it** This trait.


###### Rashi on Job 31:22:1
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**מִשִּׁכְמָה.** הוּא רֹחַב הַכָּתֵף:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**from its shoulder blade** That is the width of the shoulder.


###### Rashi on Job 31:22:2
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**מִקָּנֶה.** הוּא עֶצֶם הָעֶלְיוֹן, הֶעָגֹל כְּקָנֶה; וְעַל שֶׁהוּא עָגֹל כְּקָנֶה, קוֹרֵא אוֹתוֹ כֵּן:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**from its bone** That is the upper bone, which is round as a reed (קנה), and because it is round as a reed, it is called so.


###### Rashi on Job 31:23:1
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**כִּי פַחַד אֵלַי וְגוֹ׳.** פַּחַד הָיָה בְּעֵינַי אֵידוֹ, שֶׁהוּא מֵבִיא עַל הָרְשָׁעִים; לָכֵן חָדַלְתִּי מֵעֲשׂוֹת:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**fear to me** His misfortune, which He brought upon the wicked, was fear in my eyes; therefore, I refrained from doing it.


###### Rashi on Job 31:23:2
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**וּמִשְּׂאֵתוֹ.** וּמִכְּבוֹדוֹ:


###### Rashi on Job 31:24:1
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**כִּסְלִי.** כְּמוֹ ״אֲשֶׁר יָקוֹט כִּסְלוֹ״ (איוב ח:יד) – תִּקְוָתִי וּמַחֲשַׁבְתִּי. וְעַל יְדֵי שֶׁכְּלָיוֹת עַל הַכְּסָלִים הֵם (ויקרא ג:ד), וְהַכְּלָיוֹת יוֹעֲצוֹת (תהלים טז:ז), נִקְרֵאת הַמַּחֲשָׁבָה ׳כֶּסֶל׳:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**my hope** Heb. כסלי, like (8:14), “whose confidence (כסלו) shall be cut off.” My hope and my thought, and because the kidneys are on the flanks (כסלים), and the kidneys advise, the thought is called כֶּסֶל.


###### Rashi on Job 31:24:2
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**וְלַכֶּתֶם.** קְבוּצוֹת זָהָב וְאוֹצָרוֹת:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and to jewelry** A gathering of gold and treasures.


###### Rashi on Job 31:24:3
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**אָמַרְתִּי מִבְטַחִי.** לְהִתְחַזֵּק בָּהֶם עַל הָעֲנִיִּים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**I said, ‘My confidence.’** therewith to strengthen myself over the poor.


###### Rashi on Job 31:25:1
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**אִם אֶשְׂמַח כִּי רַב חֵילִי.** לֹא הָיִיתִי נוֹהֵג שִׂמְחָה בִּפְנֵי הָעֲנִיִּים בְּעָשְׁרִי, שֶׁלֹּא לְהַקְנִיאָם בִּי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**If I rejoiced because my wealth** I did not behave with joy in the presence of the poor so as not to make them envious of me.


###### Rashi on Job 31:26:1
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**אִם אֶרְאֶה אוֹר כִּי יָהֵל.** חַמָּה בִּתְקוּפַת גְּבוּרָתָהּ וְהִילָּה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**If I saw light shining** The sun in the orbit of its might, and its brightness.


###### Rashi on Job 31:26:2
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**וְיָרֵחַ יָקָר הוֹלֵךְ.** מַגִּיהַּ וְהוֹלֵךְ, כְּמוֹ ״אוֹר יְקָרוֹת״ (זכריה יד:ו), ״כִּיקַר כָּרִים״ (תהלים לז:כ):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and the moon becoming brighter** Heb. יקר. Progressively brighter, like (Zech. 14:6), “bright (יקרות) light”; (Ps. 37:20), “like the glory (כיקר) off the meadows.”


###### Rashi on Job 31:27:1
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**וַיִּפְתְּ בַּסֵּתֶר לִבִּי.** לַשֶּׁמֶשׁ וְלַיָּרֵחַ לֵאמֹר: אֱלוֹהוּת הֵם, כִּקְצָת עוֹבְדֵי כוֹכָבִים הַנִּדָּחִים (וְעוֹבְדִים) לְכָל צְבָא הַשָּׁמַיִם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**And my heart was secretly enticed** to the sun and the moon, saying that they are gods, like some heathens, who have gone astray (and worship) all the host of heaven.


###### Rashi on Job 31:30:1
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**וְלֹא נָתַתִּי לַחֲטֹא חִכִּי.** לְהַקְנִיט שׂוֹנְאִי וְלִתְבֹּעוֹ מָמוֹן שֶׁאֵין לִי עָלָיו, כְּדֵי לְהַשְׁבִּיעוֹ, **וְלִשְׁאֹל בְּאָלָה נַפְשׁוֹ** שֶׁל שׂוֹנְאִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**but I did not allow my palate to sin** to provoke my enemy and to sue him for money that he does not owe me, in order to adjure him and to ask for the soul of my enemy with an oath.


###### Rashi on Job 31:31:1
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**לֹא נִשְׂבָּע.** מִתּוֹךְ שִׂנְאָה שֶׁהָיוּ שׂוֹנְאִים אוֹתִי, עַל שֶׁהָיִיתִי מַטְרִיחָם בְּהַכְנָסַת אוֹרְחִים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**We will not be sated** Because of the hatred that they bore against me for burdening them with hospitality toward guests.


###### Rashi on Job 31:32:1
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**לָאֹרַח.** לֹא הָיוּ דַּלְתוֹת בֵּיתִי פְּנִימִיִּים וּמוּקָּפִין בֵּית שַׁעַר מִבַּחוּץ, אוֹ מוּסָּבִין בְּקַרְנֵי זָוִית, לְהַשְׁבִּית אֶת הָאוֹרְחִים מִלָּבוֹא, אֶלָּא פְּתוּחִין לְאֵם דֶּרֶךְ, לָבוֹא כָּל הַבָּא:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**to the road** The doors of my house were not inside and enclosed by a gatehouse outside, or surrounded by corners to stop the wayfarers from coming, but open to the crossroads so that whoever wishes to come may do so.


###### Rashi on Job 31:33:1
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**בְּחֻבִּי.** בְּמַחֲבוֹאִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**in my hiding place** Heb. בחבי, like בְּמַחַבוֹאִי.


###### Rashi on Job 31:34:1
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**כִּי אֶעֱרוֹץ.** מִתְּחִלָּה הָיִיתִי מַכְנִיעַ הָמוֹן רַבָּה שֶׁל רְשָׁעִים, וְעַתָּה אַף בֵּין כַּשְׂדִּיִים, ״זֶה הָעָם לֹא הָיָה״ (ישעיהו כג:יג):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**For I would subdue** Originally I would subdue a great multitude of wicked men, but now, even among the Chaldeans—“This people has never been” (Isa. 23:13).


###### Rashi on Job 31:34:2
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**יְחִתֵּנִי.** יְיָרְאֵנִי:


###### Rashi on Job 31:35:1
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**הֵן תָּוִי שַׁדַּי יַעֲנֵנִי.** וּלְוַאי שֶׁיָּעִיד עָלַי הַמָּקוֹם בַּדִּין, כְּמוֹ שֶׁאָמַר עָלַי: ״כִּי אֵין כָּמוֹהוּ בָּאָרֶץ... תָּם וְיָשָׁר וִירֵא אֱלֹהִים״ (איוב א:ח). גַּם מֹשֶׁה שֶׁכָּתַב סִפְרוֹ וְסִפְרִי יָעִיד עָלַי. כֵּן הָיָה אִיּוֹב אוֹמֵר: תְּנָה לְתַוּוֹת אוֹתִי וְאֶת כּוֹשְׁרִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**behold my inscription; may the Almighty bear witness for me** Would that the Omnipresent bear witness for me in judgment, as He wrote concerning me (1:8): “For there is none like him on earth, a sincere and upright man, God-fearing.” Also Moses, who wrote his Book and my Book, will bear witness concerning me. (Another explanation:) This is what Job says, “Give it to inscribe me and my virtue.”


###### Rashi on Job 31:35:2
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**שַׁדַּי יַעֲנֵנִי.** לְבַקָּשָׁה זֹאת:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**may the Almighty answer me** for this request.


###### Rashi on Job 31:35:3
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**וְסֵפֶר כָּתַב אִישׁ רִיבִי.** יִכְתֹּב גַּם הוּא סִפְרוֹ, לְהִתְוַכֵּחַ עִמִּי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and may my opponent write a book** May he too write a book to contend with me.


###### Rashi on Job 31:36:1
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**אֶשָּׂאֶנּוּ.** לִכְתּוֹב אֶת סְפָרִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Would I not carry him** The writer of the book.


###### Rashi on Job 31:36:2
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**אֶעֶנְדֶנּוּ.** אֶקְשְׁרֶנּוּ לְסֵפֶר עֲטָרוֹת לִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**bind it** I will bind the book to me as crowns.


###### Rashi on Job 31:37:1
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**מִסְפַּר צְעָדַי אַגִּידֶנּוּ.** לְאוֹתוֹ הָאִישׁ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**I will tell him the number of my steps** to that man.


###### Rashi on Job 31:38:1
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**אִם עָלַי אַדְמָתִי תִזְעָק.** עַל לֶקֶט שִׁכְחָה וּפֵאָה וּמַעַשְׂרוֹת, שֶׁלֹּא הוֹצֵאתִי מַעַשְׂרוֹת כָּרָאוּי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**If my soil complains about me** concerning the gleanings, the forgotten sheaves, and the end [of the field], as well as tithes, [claiming] that I did not extract tithes properly.


###### Rashi on Job 31:38:2
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**וְיַחַד תְּלָמֶיהָ יִבְכָּיוּן.** שֶׁחָרַשְׁתִּי בְּשׁוֹר וּבַחֲמוֹר יַחְדָּיו (דברים כב:י):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and its furrows weep together** that I plowed with an ox and with a donkey together.


###### Rashi on Job 31:39:1
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**בְּלִי כָסֶף.** לִשְׂכֹּר שְׂכִירִים וּלְעָשְׁקָם. דָּבָר אַחֵר: זֶה מַעֲשֵׂר שֵׁנִי, דִּכְתִיב ״וְצַרְתָּ הַכֶּסֶף בְּיָדְךָ״ (דברים יד:כה):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**without money** to hire workers and to oppress them [by not paying them]. Another explanation. This refers to the second tithe, concerning which it is written (Deut. 14:25): “And you shall tie the money in your hand.”


###### Rashi on Job 31:39:2
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**וְנֶפֶשׁ בְּעָלֶיהָ.** אָרִיס הָעוֹבֵד בָּהּ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and I caused pain to its owner** The sharecropper who tills it.


###### Rashi on Job 31:40:1
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**בָּאְשָׁה.** (דָּבָר מַבְאִישׁ) כְּמוֹ ״בְּאוּשִׁים״ (ישעיה ה:ב). וְאִם לֹא עָשִׂיתִי כֵּן **תַּחַת חִטָּה יֵצֵא חוֹחַ.** תָּנָא רַבִּי אוֹשַׁעְיָא: לִמֶּדְתְךָ תּוֹרָה דֶּרֶךְ אֶרֶץ: שָׂדֶה שֶׁמַּעֲלָה חוֹחִים, יָפֶה לְזוֹרְעָהּ חִטִּים, שֶׁמַּעֲלָה בְּאוּשִׁים יָפֶה לְזוֹרְעָהּ שְׂעוֹרִים. כָּךְ הוּא בַּיַּלְקוּט (ילקוט שמעוני איוב תתקיח). וּמַה טַּעַם? **תַּחַת חִטָּה יֵצֵא חוֹחַ**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**noisome weeds** Heb. באשה, (a malodorous plant) like בְּאֻשִׁים (Isa. 5:2). And if I did not do so, may thistles emerge instead of wheat. (Rabbi Oshia taught: The Torah teaches you practical advice, that in a field beset with thistles it is advisable to sow wheat, and in a field beset with weeds, it is advisable to sow barley. This is the reading of Yalkut.) Now what is the reason? “Instead of wheat, thistles shall emerge.”


###### Rashi on Job 31:40:2
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**תַּמּוּ וְגוֹ׳.** עַד כָּאן הוּא חוֹזֵר וּמִתְנַבֵּא כַּמָּה נְבוּאוֹת, וְאַתְּ אוֹמֵר תַּמּוּ דִּבְרֵי אִיּוֹב? אֶלָּא כָּךְ אוֹמֵר אִיּוֹב: אִם לֹא עָשִׂיתִי כֵן, יִתַּמּוּ דִּבְרֵי אִיּוֹב, וְאַל יְהִי פִּתְחוֹן פֶּה לוֹמַר לְפָנֶיךָ ״בִּעַרְתִּי הַקֹּדֶשׁ״ (דברים כו:יג). כָּךְ רָאִיתִי בַּפְּסִיקְתָּא בְּפָרָשַׁת ׳עַשֵּׂר תְּעַשֵּׂר׳ (דברים יד:כב) מְפֹרָשׁ כֵּן, מִן הַפְּסוּקִים הָאֵלּוּ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
Until this point, he repeatedly prophesies many prophecies, and you say: Job’s words are ended? Rather, Job says as follows, “If I have not done so, may Job’s words be ended, and may he have no pretext for saying before You (Deut. 26:13), ‘I have cleared away what is holy.’” I saw this in the Pesikta of the portion עשר תעשר (ibid. 14), explained in this manner from these verses.