Comentários de Citação sobre Jó 34:29

Our predecessors, their memory to blessing, said that stood is harder than went and sat is harder than all of them. If so, the insulters will be worse than sinners. And Rabbi Moshe the Kohen explained to the contrary, and said that the intention of did not stand is "didn't even stand". And according to my understanding, that the word wicked are those who do not stand on one standard(?)...

Who doth not walk in the counsel of the wicked: – He first recounts the evil way, as he also says likewise elsewhere (Ps. 34:15): “Depart from evil and do good,” because man first learns, from his youth up, the way of the desires of this world, to eat and to drink and to be merry, and in them grows up, as it says (Gen. 8:21): “for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth.” So and (then) when man arrives at years of discretion and begins to distinguish good and evil, he warns him to depart from the way of the wicked and not to follow their advice. Now the wicked are those who are feverishly anxious to amass wealth and the desires of whose heart are in this world, who do not distinguish between right and wrong, but for money's sake steal and plunder and murder because of the exceeding restlessness of their heart. For the root meaning of רשׁע (wickedness) is “restlessness,” as “When He giveth quietness who then can disturb?” (ירשׁיע disquiet) (Job 34:29); “and whithersoever he turned himself he vexed (ירשׁיע disquieted) them” (I Sam. 14:47); “neither shall violence (רשׁע) deliver its masters” (Koheleth 8:8); “Be not overmuch engaged (תרשע) in worldly matters” (ibid. 7:17). It is on this account that he conjoins walk with wicked; and with these he joins counsel, for they counsel the children of men to listen to them and they shew them specious counsel (to the effect) that it is a fine thing to gather riches and to be merry. And man is largely deceived in this, for the good which is visible to his eyes appears best to him and he does not look to its end. And he (the Psalmist) Says:

The way of the Lord: And what is His way? To do what is just and right. For He desires these [things]. And everything that the sages called traits, Scripture calls ways. So one who does kindness, justice and righteousness is called one who walks in His ways, who guards His ways. And one who contemplates His traits — to comprehend their truth and to know them, how He behaves with His creatures, whether for discipline or kindness, towards a nation or a man alike [alluding to Job 34:29] — is called one who knows God, in all of Scripture. And he is the one who finds favor in the eyes of the Lord. And it is as Moses said, let me please know Your ways in order that I will find favor (Exodus 33:13). And it is stated about Josiah, "did your father not, etc. do judgment and justice [...] was not this to know Me," says the Lord (Jeremiah 22:15-16). It is clear from this that there is not so much of a need for the investigation of wonders about His Unity and truth, as much as the observance of His ways. For only the observance of His ways by one who knows them is called knowing the Lord.