Kaisipang Hudyo sa Isaias 53:10: Netivot Olam

In the chapter [entitled] Yesh Nochalin (Bava Batra 116a): Rabbi Pinchas ben Chama expounded, "Poverty in a person’s household is more difficult than fifty plagues, as it is stated: Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me (Job 19:21). And they said to him: Take heed, do not turn to iniquity; for this have you chosen rather than poverty (Job 36:21)." To here [is the Gemara]. And the explanation of this is that poverty is more than all of the plagues, which are 50 plagues. It is as they said (Mekhilta DeRabbi Yishmael, Vayehi Beshalach 7:15), that the Egyptians were struck with 50 plagues [at the Sea]. As they were struck with 10 plagues [when it was referred to as] the finger. If so, it follows that [the plagues referred to as] the hand are 50 plagues. And Job said to his friends that the hand of God had touched him. If so, he was struck by 50 plagues. Nevertheless, his friends said to him that he should not turn to iniquity, to ruminate about [God's] trait of judgment, since all of this is better than poverty, which is more [than what he suffered]. And that is because absence — the lack of bread and of a livelihood — corresponds to everything. For a plague is only absence and a lack in a certain thing. But poverty is considered like death, just like death is the lack of life. Hence, poverty is considered like death because poverty is like all of the plagues. If a poor person accepts the afflictions with love and does not ruminate about the trait of judgment, his reward will then be, as we said above — he will see offspring and have a long life (alluding to Isaiah 53:10).