욥기 28:3 카발라: Zohar & Sha'arei Orah

AND IT CAME TO PASS AT THE END. R. Hiya expounded the word “end” from the text: He setteth an end for darkness, and he searcheth out to the furthest bound; a stone of thick darkness and the shadow of death (Job 28, 3). ‘The end here mentioned is’, he said, ‘an allusion to the “end of the left”, which, after roaming to and fro in the world, finally ascends and presents itself before the Holy One, blessed be He, to bring accusations against mankind. He “searcheth out to the furthest bound” (takhlith— destruction), inasmuch as all his works are never for good, but always for destruction and for the utter annihilation of the world.

as it says concerning those who built the Tower of Babel: “And the Lord, came down to see” (Gen. 11, 5.); also in connection with Sodom and Gomorra: “I will go down now and see” (Ibid. 18, 21); for the Holy One would not rest satisfied to condemn the world to perdition merely on the strength of the word of Satan, who is the great accuser and whose only desire is to destroy the world.

Therefore the Shunammite woman said, “I dwell among my people” (2 Kings 4, 16), meaning that she had no desire to separate herself from the majority, having dwelt hitherto among her people and being known above merely as one with them. Job, however, was known apart from his people: he was singled out; and this was Satan’s opportunity. Said he: “Doth Job fear God for naught? Hast not thou made an hedge about him and about his house?… ” (Job 1, 9-10), meaning, “Take away all the good things with which thou hast endowed him, and he will curse thee to thy face (v. 11): he will leave thee and become attached to the ‘other side’. At present he eats thy bread; take that away and we shall soon see of what stuff he is made and to whom he will cleave!”