Comentários de Citação sobre Jó 15:17

V. 14. שמע בקול ,שמע לקול – ,שמע אל – .ואם לא תשמעו לי heißt entschieden gehorchen, "שמע ל־" aber ebenso oft nur: hören, jemandem zuhören, jemanden anhören. So häufig in Job. 15, 17; 29, 21; 31, 35; 32, 10 usw. Da nun in dem folgenden ולא תעשו וגו׳ der Ungehorsam bereits vollständig ausgedrückt ist, so dürfte das ואם לא תשמעו לי den Mangel des Anhörens des Gotteswortes bezeichnen, und damit der erste Anfang des praktischen Abfalls im Unterlassen des Lernens der Gottesgesetze, in Vernachlässigung der Gesetzeskunde gezeichnet sein. So wird dies auch in ת׳׳כ z. St. gefaßt. Die Folge dieser theoretischen Sünde ist dann der praktische Abfall. כל שאינו לומד אינו עושה. ולא תעשו וגו׳ (ת׳׳כ).

ויקרא האדם שם אשתו חוה, “Adam called the name of his wife Chavah.” According to the plain meaning of the text the word חוה means “talking,” based on Job 15,17 אחוך שמע לי, “I will hold forth, listen to me.” This was another example of Adam displaying his great wisdom when naming creatures. He immediately realized that woman was prone to talk a lot. The fact that most women are very talkative may have been inherited from the first woman. When Adam added the words כי היא היתה אם כל חי, “for she had become the mother of all חי”, this was a reference to all living creatures equipped with the power of speech. He meant to exclude all the living creatures which did not possess intelligence.

With awesome power (Deuteronomy 26:8) - This represents the revelation of the Divine Presence: What is the connection between the phrase “awesome power” and the suggestion that it was a “Divine Revelation?” This interpretation is based on a Midrashic play on words in which the Maggid interprets a word by on switching the order of its letters. The word “Awesome” is “Morah,” מורא. By switching the “Vav” and the “Raysh,” we get “Ma’or,” מאור, which means “light.” The “Morah Gadol,” the awesome power of God is revealed as a great light or a vision! Similarly, in Deuteronomy 4:34 we read, “Has any god ventured to go and take for himself one nation from the midst of another by prodigious acts, by signs...and awesome powers?.” (The Hebrew here is “Moraim Gedolim.”) Onkeles, the Aramaic translation of Bible, interprets this expression to mean “great visions,” from the Aramaic word for “sight.”