1)
Where are these merchants?
1.
Malbim: They are on the land.
2)
What is "Sharku"?
1.
Rashi: They whistled.
3)
Why does it say "Balahos Hayis"?
1.
Malbim: You were like a figment of imagination that flew away; it passed from the world forever.
QUESTIONS ON RASHI
4)
Rashi writes that "Sharku" is whistling. Why did they do so?
1.
Rashi: So people do over something that passed and went away.
2.
Malbim: Their trade was lost.