Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
If he pass through, and shut up, And call unto judgment, then who can hinder him?
WEB
If He comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop Him?
YLT
If He pass on, and shut up, and assemble, Who then dost reverse it?
DBT
If he pass by, and shut up, and call to judgment, who can hinder him?
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentJob — The canonical wisdom-literature interrogation of undeserved suffering. A prose frame enclosing three cycles of dialogue, a late Elihu interrupt, and a whirlwind theophany that does not answer the question — it relativizes it.
- Author
- Anonymous. Talmudic tradition names Moses (Bava Batra 14b); internal features (patriarchal setting, no Mosaic Law reference, Job sacrificing as family head, *qesitah* currency of Gen 33:19) suggest patriarchal-era composition or at least tradition-origin.
- Date
- Traditional: patriarchal period, c. 2000–1800 BC. Critical proposals scatter across pre-exilic to post-exilic. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer takes the position.