Commento su Isaia 40:15
הֵ֤ן גּוֹיִם֙ כְּמַ֣ר מִדְּלִ֔י וּכְשַׁ֥חַק מֹאזְנַ֖יִם נֶחְשָׁ֑בוּ הֵ֥ן אִיִּ֖ים כַּדַּ֥ק יִטּֽוֹל׃
Ecco, le nazioni sono come una goccia di un secchio e sono contate come la piccola polvere dell'equilibrio; Ecco le isole hanno il peso di un mote.
Rashi on Isaiah
Behold the nations are like a drop from a bucket And are not worthy to Him to appoint some of them as prophets to reveal His secret.
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Ibn Ezra on Isaiah
כמר מדלי As a drop of a bucket, as a drop that falls from the bucket. מר drop is hap. leg.
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Rashi on Isaiah
like a drop from a bucket Heb. כְּמַר, like a bitter drop that drips from the bottom of the bucket, bitter from the putrid water that is embedded in the bucket and the decay of the wood, limonede in O.F.
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Ibn Ezra on Isaiah
וכשחק And as the small dust. Comp. ושחקת and thou shalt beat (Ex. 30:36).—Since all people are vain before Him, with whom could he have taken counsel?
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Rashi on Isaiah
and like the dust of a balance for the copper corrodes and wears off.
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Ibn Ezra on Isaiah
יטול He throweth; comp. ויטילו and cast Him forth (Jon. 1:5), though of a different root. According to R. Jonah ימול is Niphal, but that is very improbable; it can also be explained He taketh up and compared with נוטל carrying (Mishnah Shab. 17:2).38יטּול. can be Niphal of טול as well as Kal of נטל; but the construction of the sentence is not in favour of the former, for we should then have to supply the relative אשר: The isles are like dust that is carried away; but ימול being taken as the Kal of נטל requires no such supplement.
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Rashi on Isaiah
like fine fine dust.
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Rashi on Isaiah
that blows away [lit. that will be taken.] Like dust that is picked up and goes up through the wind, like fine dust that is carried away.
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