Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
If thou set thy heart aright, And stretch out thy hands toward him;
WEB
As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,
YLT
If thou--thou hast prepared thy heart, And hast spread out unto Him thy hands,
DBT
If thou prepare thy heart and stretch out thy hands toward 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.