Komentaryong Sumisipi para sa Job 28:18

Wisdom is as pearls to the fool Heb. ראמות, a type of rare precious stone, as it is stated (Job 28: 18): “Pearls (ראמות) and beryls.” All wisdom appears to the fool as unattainable, [as difficult] to purchase as precious stones and pearls, saying, ‘’How will I learn Torah? When will I attain it?” But the wise man studies a little today and a little tomorrow.

gigantic hailstones Heb. אַבְנֵי אֶלְגָּבִישּׁ, huge hailstones, and I say that because they shine as do all [crystal] hailstones, he likens them to crystal (גָבִישּׁ), which is a precious stone, as in the way that it is stated (Job 28:18): “Coral and crystal (וְגָבִישּׁ).” Our Sages (Ber. 54b) said: [They are called] אֶלְגָבִישּׁ because they [once] stood in the air over a man עַל גַב אִישּׁ, and this is Moses, our teacher, as it is said (Exod. 9: 33): “and rain did not reach the earth” those that started to fall did not reach the earth.

2. עֶבְרָ֣ה “Wrath” - The rain was so heavy that each drop of rain was equal to the amount of water in a Mikvah, 40 Sea. The proof of this is what remained (of the rain) pending, as it states, “No rain came pouring down upon the earth.”¹See Rashi no rain came pouring down upon the earth. לא נתך means [RAIN] DID NOT REACH the earth (i. e. no fresh rain came down) — that rain, too, which was already in the air at the moment when Moses was praying remained there and did not reach the ground. (Ex. 9:33) The rain was called hailstones (gav’eesh)²See Rashi on Ezekiel 38:23, and great hailstones They were hailstones that glisten like precious stones named גָּבִישּׁ, crystal, as the matter is stated (Job 28:18): “Coral and crystal (וְגָּבִישּׁ).” Our Sages said (Ber. 54b): עַל גַב אִישּׁ: Hailstones that started to fall on Egypt, and stood in the air over the man (עַל גַב אִישּׁ), Moses, who prayed that they not fall, as the matter that is stated (Exod. 9:33), לֹא נִתַּךְ אַרְצָה “[it] did not reach the ground.” which then fell in the time of Joshua. It was bound up by a mighty storm. The sages presumed that the rain drops weighed 40 Seah, as they have explained.

and great hailstones Hailstones that glisten like precious stones named גָּבִישּׁ, crystal, as the matter is stated (Job 28:18): “Coral and crystal (וְגָּבִישּׁ).” Our Sages said (Ber. 54b): עַל גַב אִישּׁ: Hailstones that started to fall on Egypt, and stood in the air over the man (עַל גַב אִישּׁ), Moses, who prayed that they not fall, as the matter that is stated (Exod. 9:33), לֹא נִתַּךְ אַרְצָה “[it] did not reach the ground.”