Rashi on TanakhJob 32

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Read Job 32 in the Bible

Job 32:2

Elihu’s Address
of the family of Ram Abraham, as it is stated (Josh. 14:15): “the greatest man among the Anakim.” This is Abraham.
than God More than the Omnipresent.

Job 32:3

and condemned Job This is one of the verses wherein the Scribes rectified the language of the Scripture. “And they condemned,” as directed against the Omnipresent, by remaining silent, should have been written, but Scripture euphemized. Similarly (Num. 11:15), “and do not let me see my misfortune.” It should have been written: “and do not let me see their misfortune,” but Scripture euphemized, and so many [other] instances, in Sifrei (ad loc.) and in the Great Masorah.

Job 32:4

because they were older than he in days [i.e.,] the others [were older than he]. Therefore, he refrained until they were still.

Job 32:8

Indeed, it is a spirit in man Wisdom [is a spirit in man] and [comes] not through days or old age, but it is the spirit of the Omnipresent.

Job 32:12

Yea, I attended to you I attended to you, and I saw that there is no one to convince Job.

Job 32:13

Lest you say You shall not say We have found wisdom by remaining silent in order not to provoke him anymore. for God will crush him and not a man You should not have belittled the honor of the Omnipresent thereby.

Job 32:14

He did not set up words against me This is a plaint: Woe that he did not set up words against me.
I would not reply to him with your sayings I would not reply to him with those sayings with which you replied to him.

Job 32:15

have removed themselves Words have turned away from them.

Job 32:19

Behold my belly is full of wind, words to answer eagerly.
like wine that is not opened Like new wine that is not opened, and which blows up, and even [if it is] within new wineskins, it bursts them.
like...wineskins Wineskins made as tall as a man’s height.

Job 32:21

neither will I euphemize I will not change my words to replace them [with milder expressions] in deference to his [Job’s] honor, as I said above, “And they condemned Job.” This is a euphemism, which changes the expression because of His honor. I will not even do this, but I will reprove him explicitly.

Job 32:22

or else...would carry me away He would take me away from the world. Others interpret יִשָׂאֵנִי like (Nahum 1:5), “and the land raised up (ותשא) from before me [a pillar of smoke].”

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