יָדַעְתִּי כִּי כֹל תּוּכָל. כִּי הַכֹּל תּוּכַל לַעֲשׂוֹת, כַּאֲשֶׁר יָשָׁר בְּעֵינֶיךָ:

Job’s Reply I knew that You can do everything That You can do anything that pleases You.

and no design is restrained from You He repeats his words, that no design or plan is restrained or withheld from You, that You can complete and fulfill Your plans, for strength and might are in Your hand, and You have the power to do all that pleases You. This verse is similar to (Gen. 11:6), “Now will nothing that they have planned to do be restrained (יבצר) from them?”

Who is this who concealed and covered the counsel and the wonders of the Holy One, blessed be He, without knowledge? I knew that everything is in Your hand to do, and so I related some of Your mighty deeds as were in my heart; as I knew [them].

but I did not understand But I did not understand so much, as You informed me, for many wonders are hidden and concealed from me, which I do not know.

I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear Many many times I have heard of You. and now, my eye has seen You Your Shechinah.

Therefore Since I merited to see Your Shechinah. I despise I despise my life. on dust and ashes if I were resting in the grave, to return to dust and ashes whence I was taken.

and your two companions Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite.

because you did not speak Because you did not speak to Me with a correct argument as did My servant Job, for he did not rebel against Me except for what he said (above 9:22), “He destroys both the innocent and the wicked,” and through the Adversary who denounces the world, as it is stated (ibid. verse 23): “If the scourge kills suddenly etc.” And if he continued to speak, he spoke because of the severity of the pains that burdened him and overwhelmed him; but you rebelled by condemning him, saying (4: 6), “Behold, your fear was your foolishness,” and you held him to be a wicked man, and at the end when you were silenced and defeated before him, you should have consoled him as Elihu did. Was it not enough for Job with his trouble and his sufferings, that you added rebellion to your sins to provoke him?

and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves So that you placate and appease Me, provided that My servant Job pray for you that I forgive your sins, and no longer remember your transgressions.

for I will favor him Heb. כי אם, because I will favor him to accept his prayer (thus the word אִם is used for “that”), and likewise (Gen. 24:19), “until (עד אם) they have finished drinking”; (Ex. 21:30), “in which case (אם) an atonement is placed on him,” and many others.

for...not Because...not.

and the Lord favored Job Heb. וישא, [lit. and the Lord lifted His countenance] as in (Gen. 19: 21), “I have favored you (נשאתי) also in this respect,” that He accepted his prayer and showed him a bright countenance.

Now the Lord returned Job’s captivity when he prayed [The word] שָׁב is inappropriate in this matter, and it is as though it were written: “And He returned (נשאתי) Job’s captivity when he prayed.”

for his friend In the merit that he prayed for each friend of his.

twice as much Heb. למשנה, for one, two; and Scripture was not exact in its wording.

previous All who were his friends and acquaintances before the sufferings befell him.

and they bemoaned him Complaindre in Old French, to complain.

one piece of money a ma’ah.

and each one and every one of them.

more than his beginning More than his former wealth.

fourteen Heb. שבענה. They were twice seven, two sevens, like (Lev. 12:5), שְׁבֻעַיִם which means two weeks.

And he named the first Jemimah They were named according to their beauty.

Jemimah Bright and white as the sun (יום).

Keziah She had a fragrant and perfumed scent like the spice, cassia.

Keren-happuch Because of the horn in which they put stibium and lixivium, as it is stated (Jer. 4: 30): “that you enlarge your eye with paint (בפוך).”

Nowhere...were women as beautiful as Job’s daughters to be found An instance of beautiful women like the phenomenon of the beauty of Job’s daughters was not found. This verse is on the pattern of (Num. 9:6), “But there was [an incident of] men who were unclean.”

and their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers Because of (their esteem and) their beauty, he gave them an inheritance with their brothers.

and sated with days Heb. וּשְׂבַע.From וְשָׂבֵעַ he says וּשְׂבַע, in the construct state.