Commentary for Job 27:8
כִּ֤י מַה־תִּקְוַ֣ת חָ֭נֵף כִּ֣י יִבְצָ֑ע כִּ֤י יֵ֖שֶׁל אֱל֣וֹהַּ נַפְשֽׁוֹ׃
For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain, When God taketh away his soul?
Rashi on Job
For what is the hope of a flatterer For why should I be a wicked man and a robber? What is the end of a wicked man who takes money by force?
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Malbim on Job
Job refutes the interpretation his companions had put on God’s ways, regarding it as no more than cheap flattery. They had refused to face the truth about Him
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Rashi on Job
when God casts off Heb. ישל. When the Omnipresent casts his soul off him. This is an expression of (Exod. 3:5), “Remove (של) your shoes”; (Deut. 19:5), “and the iron [head] slips off (ונשל).”
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