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Commentary for Job 6:17

בְּ֭עֵת יְזֹרְב֣וּ נִצְמָ֑תוּ בְּ֝חֻמּ֗וֹ נִדְעֲכ֥וּ מִמְּקוֹמָֽם׃

What time they wax warm, they vanish, When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

Rashi on Job

At the time they become warm Heb. יזרבו, an expression of יְצֹרָבוּ, they become warm from the heat of the sun.
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they retreat Heb. נצמתו, retrait in Old French, shrink, contract, as “and the vinegar shrinks them (צומתן), (Pesachim 41a) in Talmudic Hebrew. [In the word יְזֹרָבוּ], the “zaddi” is converted to a “zayin,” like צעקה and זעקה, a cry.
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Rashi on Job

[Therefore,] יְזֹרָבוּ is an expression of (Ezekiel 21:3), “and all faces shall be scorched (ונצרבו),” and like (Prov. 16:27), “searing (צרבת) fire.”
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they jump they jump from their place.
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