פירוש על ישעיהו 29:21

Those who cause man to sin by a word They are the false prophets.

מחטיאי אדם בדבר That make a man an offender for a word, that watch the words of man, and accuse him, in order to see him punished; or that cause others to sin by their words.

and him who reproves in the gate they trap (יְקשׁוּן. Jonathan renders:) And for the one who reproves them, they seek for him a stumblingblock. (יְקשׁוּן is) an expression related to מוֹקֵשׁ, a trap.

יקושון They lay a snare. Comp. מוקש snare (Deut. 7:16). R. Moses Hakkohen explains יקושון they rebuke, comparing it with התקששו וקשו be rebuked and rebuke (Zeph. 2:1), and says that the ש ought to have a Dagesh.²⁸In the commentary of I. E. on Zeph., R. Moses Hakkohen is quoted to explain התקששו וקשו by התקבצו come together; while the other explanation התווכחו והוכיחו be rebuked and rebuke is given anonymously, as if it were the opinion of I. E. himself.

and they mislead the righteous through fraud And they pervert with fraud the cause of the just [from Jonathan].