ייִדישער מחשבֿה אויף איוב 32:1

SINCE the verb “to say” has been figuratively used to express the will of the Creator, and the phrase “And he said has repeatedly been employed in the account of all the things created in the six days of the beginning,” the expression “to rest” has likewise been figuratively applied to God in reference to the Sabbath-day, on which there was no creation; it is therefore said, “And he rested (va-yishbot) on the seventh day” (Gen. 2:2). For “to leave off speaking” is, in Hebrew, likewise expressed by the same verb, as, e.g., “So these three men ceased (va-yishbetu) to answer Job” (Job 32:1),