Comentários de Citação sobre Jó 4:15

וזמרת, the letter ת at the end of this word is similar to the letter ת at the end of the word שכורת instead of שכורה in Isaiah 51,21 or the letter ת at the end of the word שערות inתסמר שערות בשרי in Job 4,15. It is part of a repetition of the beginning of the verse i.e. the words ורוח על פני יחלוף, “a wind passed me by.” This is also how Rav Yoseph translated it. The word וזמרת is spelled defectively just as are the words שכורת and שערות in the verses quoted. [the author means that the letter ו, indicating a sound, is only read for the vowel cholem but not spelled out in the text. Ed.]

AND G-D HAPPENED TO MEET BALAAM AND HE SAID UNTO HIM. The meaning [of this verse] is that when an occurrence happened to Balaam in the nature of those experiences which occur to men of Ruach Hakodesh⁶⁴Literally, “The Holy Spirit.” See Rambam in Moreh Nebuchim II, 45, at the paragraph beginning: “the second degree of prophecy.” See also above, Seder Korach, Note 71 and Ramban ibid. when dwelling alone and a spirit passed before his face that made the hair of his flesh to stand up,¹¹⁸Job 4:15. fear came upon him, and trembling, and all his bones were made to shake,¹¹⁹Ibid., Verse 14. and his vigor turned into weakness¹²⁰Daniel 10:8. and he fell upon his face to the ground — and then Balaam said, I have prepared the seven altars,¹⁰⁹Verse 4. this being by way of prayer, as I have explained.¹²¹Above in Verse 1. But G-d did not hearken to him and his intention, but told him: Thus shalt thou speak.¹²²Verse 5.

ספרי) שלא עמדה שערת אבותיכם בפניהם :לא שערום), vor denen euren Vätern nicht das Haar zu Berge gestanden, vor denen eure Väter kein Grauen, kein Entsetzen empfunden. So auch ומלכיהם שערו בשער (Ezech. 27, 35), ישערו עליך שער (daselbst 32, 10). Ähnlich: תסמר שערת בשרי (Job. 4, 15).

bristling Heb. סמר. (Herisse in French), covered with spikes. Cf. “It made the hair of my flesh stand up like spikes (תְּסַּמֵר)” (Job 4:15).

bristles Heb. סמר, like (Job 4:15): “it made the hair of my flesh stand on end (מסמר),” as a person whose hair stands on end, harizer in Old French, se herisser in modern French, to bristle.

bristles Heb. סמר, like (Job 4:15): “it made the hair of my flesh stand on end (מסמר),” as a person whose hair stands on end, harizer in Old French, se herisser in modern French, to bristle.