Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
WEB
For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
YLT
For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile.
DBT
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.
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.