He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
WEB
He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.
YLT
He is wandering for bread--`Where is it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.
DBT
He wandereth abroad for bread, — where may it be? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
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.