איוב כז:ח פירוש: רש״י ומלבי״ם

For what is the hope of a flatterer For why should I be a wicked man and a robber? What is the end of a wicked man who takes money by force?

Job refutes the interpretation his companions had put on God’s ways, regarding it as no more than cheap flattery. They had refused to face the truth about Him

when God casts off Heb. ישל. When the Omnipresent casts his soul off him. This is an expression of (Exod. 3:5), “Remove (של) your shoes”; (Deut. 19:5), “and the iron [head] slips off (ונשל).”