Godly Attributes of a Believer – Judging Fairly
(CJB)
So now, get yourselves seven young bulls and seven rams, go to my servant Iyov, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering. My servant Iyov will pray for you—because him I will accept—so that I won’t punish you as your boorishness deserves; because you have not spoken rightly about me, as my servant Iyov has.”
Concise Oxford English Dictionary (Boor)
boor /bɔː, bʊə/■ noun a rough and bad-mannered person.—DERIVATIVES boorish adjective boorishly adverb boorishness noun—ORIGIN 16th century
Said Raba, “How long you live, how many children you have and how much money you make depend on not merit but one’s star.”
B. For lo, Rabbah and R. Hisda were both upright rabbis. One master prayed for rain and it rained, the other prayed for rain and it didn’t come.
C. R. Hisda lived to ninety-two, Rabbah to forty.
D. In R. Hisda’s household sixty marriage feasts were celebrated, in Rabbah’s house sixty funerals were held.
E. At R. Hisda’s house they fed first-rate wheat bread to the dogs and it went to waste. At Rabbah’s house all they had was barley bread for human beings, and even that they didn’t have.
Our rabbis have taught on Tannaite authority:
B. To him who gives one’s fellow the benefit of the doubt they give the benefit of the doubt. And there was the case of someone who came down from Upper Galilee and was employed by someone in the South for three years. On the eve of the Day of Atonement he said to him, “Pay me my wages so that I can go and feed my wife and children.”
C. He said to him, “I don’t have any ready cash.”
D. He said to him, “Then pay me in produce.”
E. He said to him, “I don’t have any.”
F. “Give me land.”
G. “I don’t have any.”
H. “Give me cattle.”
I. “I don’t have any.”
J. “Give me pillows and blankets.”
K. “I don’t have any.”
L. So he tossed his things over his shoulder and went home depressed. After the festival the householder took the man’s salary in hand and with it three loaded asses, one bearing food, another drink, the third, various goodies, and he went to the man’s house. After they had eaten and drunk, he gave him his salary. He said to him, “When you said to me, ‘Give me my wages,’ and I said to you, ‘I don’t have any ready cash,’ of what did you suspect me?”
M. “I thought that you might have come upon a real bargain to buy with the cash.”
N. “And when you said to me, ‘Give me cattle,’ and I said to you, ‘I don’t have cattle,’ of what did you suspect me?”
O. “I thought that it might have been hired out to third parties.”
P. “When you said to me, ‘give me land,’ and I said to you, ‘I don’t have any land,’ of what did you suspect me?”
Q. “I thought that it might have been sharecropped by a third party.”
R. “And when I said to you, ‘I don’t have produce,’ of what did you suspect me?”
S. “I thought that they might not be tithed.”
T. “And when I said to you, ‘I don’t have pillows and blankets,’ of what did you suspect me?”
U. “I thought that you might have sanctified all your property to Heaven.”
V. He said to him, “By the Temple service! That’s just how things were. I vowed all my property [to others] on account of my son, Hyrcanus, who does not engage in Torah study, and when I went to my fellows in the South, they released me from my vow, and you, just as you gave me the benefit of the doubt, may the Omnipresent give you the benefit of the doubt.”