Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.
WEB
Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”
YLT
To the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.
DBT
It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when [our] rest shall be together in the dust.
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.