Комментарий о цитате к Йешайау 51:6

Now let us see how Job employed this same postulate in a wider context, in an examination of the whole of existence, as follows: It has become apparent to modern scientists,³Written in or about 1865. that the stars fall under the category of 'becoming and demising';⁴The category that accounts for the transient quality of the terrestrial (sublunar) world. that they are not made of a quintessence as had been the opinion of the ancients, but of ordinary matter like that of the Earth's; and that they too will ultimately decay. This is clear from the words of the prophets too:⁵This is an example of Malbim's thesis that the Tnach had nothing to fear from the new, for it had anticipated the new For the heavens will vanish like smoke, and the earth age like a garment (Isaiah 51:6).
It has also been shown that the sun, queen of the heavens, (Jeremiah 7:18) together with the multitude of stars in orbit around it, is as nothing and as naught (Isaiah 41:12) compared to the many thousands and tens of thousands of suns that are scattered throughout immeasurable space and which we see as just small specks twinkling in the Milky Way. They are worlds without number, which are also complex structures and are also destined for decay and demise.⁶In his commentary on Proverbs 3:19, Malbim writes: When He created the world ex nihilo, the Maker had in mind a number of possibilities about the different ways in which the world might be formed and, in His immaculate wisdom, He chose to form it in this way.

He made an end The Omnipresent [made an end] when there will be darkness, for the heavens shall vanish and the earth shall rot away, and He fathoms the end of everything.

when the earth changes in the future, on the day concerning which Scripture states (Isa. 51: 6): “and the earth shall rot away like a garment.” The sons of Korah saw the miracle that was performed for them, that all those around them were swallowed up while they [the sons of Korah] stood in the air and said to Israel, through the holy spirit, that a similar miracle would be performed for them in the future.

He rotted my flesh. As in, “to rotten לְבוּל wood.”²Yeshayahuu 44:19. Another explanation: ‘He has made my flesh and skin waste away,’ as in, “And the earth will wear away תִּבְלֶה like a garment,”³Ibid., 51:6. i.e., both young and old lay outdoors on the ground with neither pillow nor cushion, and their flesh wore out, when they were going into exile.

and the rags Heb. והמלחים, an expression of decay. Cf. “shall vanish (נמלחוּ) like smoke” (Isa. 51: 6).