Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?
WEB
What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
YLT
What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou--and it is not with us?
DBT
What knowest thou that we know not? [what] understandest thou which is not in us?
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.